Love and romantic quotes
Related topics“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
To a Young Writer
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
Source: The Rag and Bone Shop (2000), p. 154
“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.”
"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
What I've Learned (July 2002)
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”