The document contains quotes from famous figures about the importance and power of love. Lucille Ball states that one must love themselves to accomplish anything, while Joseph Campbell describes love as a friendship set to music. Eleanor Roosevelt asserts that while love requires courage, experiencing pain through love can be purifying by opening oneself up to receive and give affection. Oscar Wilde, Khalil Gibran, and Martin Luther King Jr. all emphasize how life without love is empty and dark. Erich Segal notes that true love comes quietly without fanfare. Martin Luther King Jr. again stresses that only love can overcome hate, not more hate. And Charles Schulz ends on a lighter note that love is essential but chocolate is a nice bonus.
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9 Inspiring Love Quotes
2. Love yourself first and everything
else falls into line. You really have to
love yourself to get anything done in
this world.
LUCILLE BALL
3. Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
4. It takes courage to love, but pain through
love is the purifying fire which those who love
generously know. We all know people who are
so much afraid of pain that they shut
themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving
out nothing, receive nothing and therefore
shrink until life is a mere living death.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
5. Keep love in your heart. A life
without it is like a sunless garden
when the flowers are dead.
OSCAR WILDE
6. Life without love is like a tree
without blossoms or fruit.
KHALIL GIBRAN
7. I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
8. True love comes quietly, without
banners or flashing lights. If you
hear bells, get your ears checked.
ERICH SEGAL
9. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love
can do that.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
10. All you need is love. But a little
chocolate now and then doesnt
hurt.
CHARLES SCHULZ