To Love Quotes

“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

“That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it.”
― Kiersten White, Bright We Burn

“... but I could also write about love. How a hand can silence thousands of voices and how someone’s smell can make you feel at home even though you’re a million miles away from
home
and have you ever hurt someone you love? Because you’re angry. Because you’re disappointed and sad and you just really wanted to love and be loved in return
but life got in the way and you both said things that should never be said and you’re angry but don’t know how to. Because you still feel this strange love for him, but you’re also fucking angry and you want to hit him, but then hug him because hurting him is hurting yourself, and then hit him again because you’re angry! and so you fall on your knees because you’re hopeless to yourself and your own emotions
and that’s love, my friend.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties.
Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved”
― Kristen Callihan, Firelight

“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.”
― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“Perhaps we do not yet know what the word “to love” means. There are within us lives in which we love unconsciously. To love thus means more than to have pity, to make inner sacrifices, to be anxious to help and give happiness; it is a thing that lies a thousand fathoms deeper, where our softest, swiftest, strongest words cannot reach it. At moments we might believe it to be a recollection, furtive but excessively keen, of great primitive unity. There is in this love a force that nothing can resist.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Loving you is an illness I'm unwilling to be cured of.”
― Fausat Omolara Ayinla

“To love is to finally live.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Loneliness is dependent on not loving very many things. So now I try to love a lot.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“If you don't do what you love, you die slowly and sometimes even you die fast!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.”
― Erich Fromm