“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
Quotes about love
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.”
“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.”
“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”
“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
“As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.”
“I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.”
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”