Top 100 The Ability To Love Quotes
#1. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Anderson Cooper
#2. With practice, you will find that not resisting holds the secret to many spiritual experiences, including the ability to love.
Deepak Chopra
#3. The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
Ziggy Marley
#4. The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.
Harold Klemp
#6. In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.
Damon Galgut
#7. Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
Deepak Chopra
#8. Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Everyone who loves life is an artist at heart. Although it is sometimes difficult to love our world and our lot in life, failure to find the ability to love life and express appreciation for our world is tantamount to not existing at all.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#10. There are two things the Lord gave man over the other creatures. He created the ability for man to think. The other is the ability to love.
I thank Him daily for these gifts, along with all the other wonderful things He created. And I thank Him for sending you to me.
Sarah Price
#11. I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return.
Debasish Mridha
#12. It is sad indeed not to be loved or not have the ability to love, for to love and be loved is sheer happiness.
Grace Foakes
#13. Just because you have the ability to love deeply doesn't mean what your thinking is correct ... loving is a mammalian feature.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
#14. The ability to love is the ability to be hurt. The ability to love deeply is the ability to be hurt deeply. But, without love, what meaning does life have?
Ray Grace
#15. Kindness is the ability to love someone in such a way that she will remember your kindness for the rest of her life.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Some men want to believe their kingship will make them stronger, more invulnerable to life's sorrows so that hurts do not hurt, pain is laughable. They are surprised to discover the paradox of strength - only the truly vulnerable possess the ability to love powerfully.
Edmond Manning
#17. Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
Ziggy Marley
#18. It is love itself that is important
the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.
Pearl S. Buck
#19. My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.
Deepak Chopra
#21. What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
Christopher Reeve
#22. That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
Taya Kyle
#23. The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.
Rick Warren
#24. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Erich Fromm
#25. In the end, you will forget to love, and you will not have the ability to offend. When you have the ability to love, love and forget to offend.
Debasish Mridha
#26. In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.
Tracy Morgan
#28. The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.
M.K. Clinton
#29. If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. What is fundamental to happiness is the ability to love and work; that is, to be able to invest in something other than yourself." Sigmund Freud
Iyathurai Aingaratheepan
#31. What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.
Christopher Earle
#32. In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.
Mary Oliver
#33. Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence!
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#34. We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.
Marissa Meyer
#35. I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.
Joshua Harris
#36. The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
Laurie Helgoe
#37. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?
Carolyn Jourdan
#38. The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#39. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
Joan Didion
#40. But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.
Shannon Noelle Long
#41. I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
Kim Harrison
#42. True love is felonious ... You take someone's breath away ... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word ... You steal a heart.
Jodi Picoult
#43. Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.
Cecelia Ahern
#44. If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether.
Catherine Jinks
#45. Our ability to give and respond to love is our greatest gift. The heart that God has fashioned in his image is the center of our being.
Henry Cloud
#46. The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. This is how worship is connected to our ability to love. When we give our ultimate allegiance to any of the principalities and powers, large or small, we find ourselves perennially at war with anyone who places these things at risk. Idolatry breeds perpetual vigilance and violence.
Richard Beck
#48. Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.
Anna Quindlen
#49. Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love
and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
Tom Shadyac
#51. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
Lynn Jones
#52. Producing the vibration of love is based on your ability to feel deep pain ... go into those feelings ... and to find peace once again.
Barbara Marciniak
#53. I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget ... to look ahead, not behind.
Dan O'Brien
#54. What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.
Oprah Winfrey
#55. Don't look for a soul mate.
Make one
out of the complex fabric of the human being already with you.
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.
Vera Nazarian
#56. Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#57. Dana taught me that the ability to grieve deeply also meant that a person had the capacity to love deeply, laugh deeply, live deeply
and that this was a capacity to be cherished.
Melanie Benjamin
#58. I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.
Jeff Buckley
#59. Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.
Debasish Mridha
#60. My love of books and ability to get buried in them while real life piles up outside the door always keeps me passive and deluded.
Kay Dew Shostak
#61. The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leo Baeck
#62. I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
David Nevins
#63. God is love, at times we forget that we're human perhaps with common frailties and flaws. Love is the ability to accept this without judgement.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#64. Love Our ability to give and respond to love is our greatest gift. The heart that God has fashioned in his image is the center of our being. Its abilities to open up to love and to allow love to flow outward are crucial to life.
Henry Cloud
#65. Isn't that cheating?
Tfu! She expects you to cheat! Masha, whom I love: These tasks do not test your strength or your wiliness; they test your ability to cheat, which is the truest measure of a devil. They are designed to be impossible if you play fair.
Catherynne M Valente
#66. Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found
even in the middle of a hurricane
if you are willing to look.
Denise Hildreth Jones
#67. This was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.
Chris Bohjalian
#68. We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our best not to fall in love with it.
Ron Brackin
#69. Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.
Dorothy Koomson
#70. I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
Natalie Gulbis
#71. Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#72. She hadn't known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.
Suenammi Richards
#73. Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#74. Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward other, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.
Pema Chodron
#75. Hurts come because we live in a world where God has given men free will. But God is love. A loving father gives his children, once they're of age, the ability to make their own choices. Our Heavenly Father does the same, and because of that, chaos sometimes ensues.
Christy Barritt
#76. People with low self-esteem fear love. (Yep. Psychology degree rears its head again.) They doubt another person's ability to appreciate them, because they don't see the worth in themselves.
Kylie Scott
#77. I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
Ally Sheedy
#78. Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
Maira Kalman
#80. The physical concerns and misalignment we experience in the spinal vertebrae of our body are often directly correlated with the spiritual energetic ability to flow freely as well.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#81. Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.
Ann Coulter
#82. Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
Jewel
#83. I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
Ron Rash
#85. After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else!
Pawan Mishra
#86. I never seemed to like the spring for what it was; I always loved it for what it might have been. In the head. In the heart of hearts. It is in my ability, I think, to love something fully only if I am naturally, compulsively, irrationally drawn to it.
Anne Sexton
#87. Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason - all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].
Billy Graham
#88. Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time
Jodi Picoult
#89. As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.
Sharon Salzberg
#90. What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
Andrew Sullivan
#91. This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.
Elizabeth George
#92. Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
Maya Angelou
#93. I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.
Henry Kravis
#94. The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.
Sheila Applegate
#95. The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.
Susan Griffin
#96. Hopes are potential power. It has the innate ability to show the way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#97. I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.
Angela Bassett
#98. My love for you is like burning of a fire, without the ability to be put out
Matt Trevitz
#99. Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.
Woody Allen
#100. Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.
Homaro Cantu
