Define Love Quotes

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

I don't think you can define love.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

I don’t think you can really define love

I did some more soul searching. I asked myself, "What do I want more than happiness?" and there was only one answer - the only thing that trumps happiness is love. Not the kind of love we are normally taught about, but the kind of unconditional love that is a deep inner state which doesn't depend on any person, situation or a romantic partner. That's how I define Love for No Reason: it's an inner state of love.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with--our selves, others, and life itself. Openness--the heart's pure, unconditional yes--is love's essence. And warmth is love's basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes--the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

I need you because I love you.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.