Quotes About Love

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate. He who loves finds the door open.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

We live in the world when we love it.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it's for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won't ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.

Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house — do not pass by like a dream.

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To Find in the left one Its consolation.

Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?