Ken Wilber Quotes

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Love hurts more than hate.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

I gave you the best of me.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.