Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.

We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me.