May Sarton Quotes

The simple and most complex answer is love.

Love is the force that makes us fully human.

Love is the most common miracle.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

Love is a peculiar thing.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

Love is the substance of human survival.

Love is a state of being.

Love is what makes the world go around. I know it's a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.

'Faces of Love' is asking about what the fundamental nature of love is.

Love is what brings us into this world.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

I don't know how I would have gotten through this life without someone to really love me and I love them, him, and them [family]. It's forgiving. Love is very forgiving to one another and your friends and it's a powerful, powerful emotion and it's my favorite emotion in life. Now, write that down and read it and remember it.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

Love is larger than life.

Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being.

Love is something you fall into.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.