Quotes about love

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“I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.”

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

“Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.”

“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.”

“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.”

“We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”

“I think we deserve people who really, really love us.”

“May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.”

“The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.
Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,
The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;
Al this mene I be love.”

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”

“Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You”

“… the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

“I love you, too."
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.”

“If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.”

“I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.”

“There are never enough 'I love you's.”

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.”

“You look invincible,' my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.”

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

“My heart is breaking for a little love”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason…”

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

“…"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”

“Its a fine line between love and stalking.”

“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

“Anyone can slay a dragon… but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”

“It is better to be feared than loved.”

“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs”

“Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?”

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”

“intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate”

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

“I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.”

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

“Make love’s quick pants”

“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

“Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake.

All the vines are ripening
And the trees come into bud,
For my love's footsteps passing by
Are summoning the spring.

Rian's stars in the night
Shine more brightly over her,
The god's moon and the goddess's
Guard her with their light.

Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake”

“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

“Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.”

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

“I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.”

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”

“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.”

“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

“Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality”

“I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.”

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”

“Don't let me wander from Your love,
Don't let me leave Your door,
And if I lose myself,
Let me find myself with You.”

“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”

“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

“God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.”

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”

“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”

“I don’t want to get old.”
“You won’t get old. Life will pass over your face, that will be all, and it will become more beautiful. One is old only when one no longer feels.”
“No. When one no longer loves.”

“The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.”

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”

“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”

“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”

“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”

“Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.”

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.”

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride."

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”

“The beauty of love.
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“Love always requires courage and involves risk.”

“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.”

“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”

“People destroy what they love.”