Top 100 Essential Love Quotes
#1. People, especially some religious people. would have us believe that it is wrong . even a sin, to love oneself. It is not. It is the basic, essential love. If you do not love yourself, you cannot possibly love anyone else. Not fully and truly.
Mary Balogh
#2. I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#3. Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.
Robert Pollok
#4. And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.
Alan Watts
#5. The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
Martha Beck
#6. To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.
Ian McKellen
#7. It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This
M. Scott Peck
#8. It is essential that true joys be experienced, that the sunrise not leave us unmoved, for civilization depends on the true joys, all those that have nothing to do with money or affluence - nature, the arts, human love.
May Sarton
#9. You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.
Leo Buscaglia
#10. Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Ray Blanton
#11. A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
John Eldredge
#12. To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression of true love, and they understood how lucky they were.
Sharon Lathan
#13. That day, engrossed together in the fate of the child, he met her mind to mind and fell in love with her, with every grain of his spirit and cell of his body; with the essential finality of death.
Dorothy Dunnett
#14. There is the question of loneliness. But again, this is not how you imagined it (if you had ever tried to imagine it). There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse.
Julian Barnes
#15. The unseen essential awaits your enlightened heart's ascension to love.
Bryant McGill
#16. Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#17. Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
Duke Ellington
#19. The combinations of these two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then, essential to the love which we are discussing ... What exists in love is surrender due to enchantment.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#20. In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.
Elie Wiesel
#21. Without trust, our relationships lack an essential ingredient for emotional intimacy. We need to be able to totally trust our partner with our deepest thoughts, dreams, fears, and secrets.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#22. Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida
#23. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#24. She has given him her breath and the pulse of her body. Given him her passion, her hatred, and her love, her past and future. Given him all that is essential in her, so that she will never be whole without him.
David R. Gillham
#25. Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.
Dalai Lama
#26. It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly
#27. The essential building block is ... the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.
Isaac Asimov
#28. I love Dior products. They have this Capture Totale One Essential Skin Boosting Super Serum that gives you fresh, glowing, dewy skin.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#29. I am not the Juliet to his Romeo.
I am not the lodestar around which he orbits.
I am not the trade wind by which he sets the course of his sails.
I am not essential or exceptional.
I was his Monday girl.
Shitty, really, since he was my whole damn week.
Julie Johnson
#30. If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential - but not at the cost of wasting your life.
Richelle Mead
#31. Learning is essential for living the life you love.
A.D. Posey
#32. Wisdom is essential for success
but failure is the source of wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#34. The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.
Martha Beck
#35. The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.
Sathya Sai Baba
#36. Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.
Peter Shepherd
#37. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Marianne Williamson
#38. Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived.
Vironika Tugaleva
#39. In fundamentals, faith is primary, and we may not appeal to love as an excuse to deny essential faith. In nonfundamentals, however, love is primary, and we may not appeal to zeal for the faith as an excuse for failures in love.
John R.W. Stott
#40. And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants.
Pants = Love
Ann Brashares
#41. Love is an essential ingredient in all miracles as it is only love that heals. Techniques don't heal. Where there is an open heart there is the energy to bring through miraculous and magical energy. Love is the great transformer.
Sandra Ingerman
#42. Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.
George Monbiot
#43. Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna
#44. I would argue that play is an essential part of living. It's the process by which great discoveries are made, industries are built, and people fall in love. The instinctive human drive toward play continuously pushes us to find new ways to understand and influence the world around us.
John Ferrara
#46. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
Sam Harris
#48. Heartbreak is essential. We grow, evolve, and learn about the most beautiful thing ever: Love! My first heartbreak taught me that love is supposed to ADD beauty and happiness to my already love-filled life!
Zulay Henao
#49. Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.
Fred Rogers
#50. The word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#51. There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence.
Julian Barnes
#52. Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.
John Dufresne
#53. Forgiveness is not an option; it is essential for life.
Debasish Mridha
#54. There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
Laura Esquivel
#55. remember that what will die in a year's time is not our essential being but our ability to interact physically with those we love and cherish. You
Stephen Levine
#56. Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
Tom Shadyac
#57. Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them.
Sebastian Barry
#58. For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.
Dalai Lama
#59. Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning. I think you need somebody to love and take care of, and someone who loves you back. In that sense, I think the New Testament got it right. So did the Beatles. Without love, nothing has any meaning.
Dick Van Dyke
#60. Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt
#61. The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
#62. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
#63. The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.
James Stalker
#64. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
Enrique Penalosa
#65. My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
Tamara Ecclestone
#66. When an essential one comes along, you'll know,
Laini Taylor
#67. Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
Albert Camus
#68. Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#69. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#70. I invite you to drink in the divine nectar of aromatic love and let it penetrate you in the deepest, most
profound ways. Trust that the oils are working side-by-side to heal, regenerate, and teach you. The more
you use them, the more they'll reveal their secrets to you
Elana Millman
#71. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.
Debasish Mridha
#72. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
George Leonard
#73. On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
Esther Perel
#74. Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#75. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#76. I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
Arthur Ashe
#77. It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.
Richard E. Grant
#79. Love, she learned, could reduce its recipient to an essential thing, as important as food or shelter, whose presence is not only longed for but needed.
Anthony Marra
#80. Love is a 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
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
Samuel Rutherford
#82. In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love.
Thabiti M. Anyabwile
#83. Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
Marianne Williamson
#84. Breaking up is hard to do ... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
Karen Salmansohn
#85. Beginning with Bilbo's unexpected party in chapter 1 with its tea, seed-cakes, buttered scones, apple-tarts, mince-pies, cheese, eggs, cold chicken, pickles, beer, coffee, and smoke rings, we find that a reverence, celebration, and love of the everyday is an essential part of Tolkien's moral vision
Devin Brown
#86. I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.
Aldous Huxley
#87. Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.
Sarah McLean
#88. Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#89. It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.
John Powell
#90. Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love
Shahrukh Khan
#91. Plato also knew clearly, and indicated by allusions in his works, the dogmas of the Trinity, mediation, the incarnation, the Passion and the notions of grace and salvation through love. He knew the essential truth. Namely, that God is good. He is only all-powerful in addition.
Simone Weil
#92. If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.
Jorie Graham
#93. Whether it's a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn't have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either.
Brad Goreski
#96. Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
David Deida
#97. We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
Jim Harrison
#98. When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.
Michael Hyatt
#99. It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn't have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.
Phil Jackson
#100. Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.
Sharon Salzberg
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