Quotes April 25, 2018

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Morrie Schwartz
 
 
 
 
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
 
 
 
 
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”
Harry Palmer
 
 
 
 
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
Pablo Neruda