Quotes about love
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Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text), Chapter 48
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), “Marriage and Love”If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XIVThe mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Baruch Spinoza”, as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu YovelPsychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Function of the Orgasm (1942)Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849“To Frances S. Osgood” (1845).
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality- Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968), “On Becoming”
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962)- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Book of the Law (1904), I:57
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 280