Famous Inspirational Quotations

5   The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference
Author : Elie Wiesel

6   To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to b and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt…that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love
Long sayings by Helen Keller

7   It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say
Author : Thomas Merton

8   Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity
Long quotes by Henri Nouwen

9   You should always live every day to the fullest. Tomorrow may never come; yesterday may be your last day. So everyday of your life you should: be happy, be friendly, and always let the people you love know how much you love them
Author : Anonymous

10   It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne

11   Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved
Long sayings by M. Scott Peck

12   If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another’s; if we feel, we would that another’s nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart’s best blood. This is Love
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley

13   You say that love is nonsense….I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one’s nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength
Long quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

14   Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet

Author : William Shakespeare

15   There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem… It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world…
Author : Emmet Fox

16   It’s one thing to want to give up things in your life to love someone better. But if they ask you to give up the things you love, they are not interested in you; they are interested in themselves
Long sayings by Anonymous

17   How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breath and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight. For the ends of Being and ideal Grace
Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning