Quotes About Life

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ― Osho

“Love has no obligations. Fear is full of obligations. Love has no expectations. Fear is full of expectations. That is why fear hurts and love doesn’t hurt. We expect something and if it doesn’t happen, we feel hurt – it isn’t fair. That is why hardly anything hurts us when we are in love.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.” – C.S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

“Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.” – Shaun Roundy

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo

“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.” — Tom Robbins

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“What is commonly called ‘falling in love’ is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.” – Ashley Montagu

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – George Aberle

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” – C.S. Lewis

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller

“Misery loves [miserable] company. Fill yourself with enough love and light and energy vampires will leave you alone.” – Shaun Roundy

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis