Quotes about love

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“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

“I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!”

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."”

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

“I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.
- Chelsea”

“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”

“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”

“We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.”

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

“I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love.”

“love means to see the one you love happy”

“When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.”

“I love you, Michael Wagner.”

“Forever?” he asked.

“Forever,” I said.”

“Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?”

“I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?”

“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.”

“APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

"You are gorgeous and people love you!”

“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks

For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”

“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

“I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.”

“Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.”

“Look to the living, love them, and hold on.”

“The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.”

“can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love”

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”

“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”

“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.”

“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”

“Max?” said the Gasman. “Are those, um, rats?”
Lovely. “Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids,” I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.”

“They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.”

“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”

“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

“I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.”

“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”

“If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.”
“It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.”

“I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.”

“if I wait to be
perfect
before I love myself
I will always be
unsatisfied
and ungrateful

if I wait until
all the flaws, chips,
and cracks disappear
I will be the cup
that stands on the shelf
and is never used”

“God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.”

“Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.”

“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”

“Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others…
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

“we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.”

“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”

“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”

“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

“He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”

“A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love”

“‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.”

“It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-”

“I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.”

“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

“I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away.
'why not?'
'because you'll just end up using it against me.”

“Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.”

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”

“Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.”

“If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses”

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”

“Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.
A dog is a true and loving friend. A dog
is also a hedonist.”

“Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought, Come back. Be the you I love and remember”

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

“In true love, you attain freedom.”

“the lesson of the falling leaves

the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves”

“Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.”

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

“Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?”

“The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.”

“Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.”

“Love makes liars of us all.”

“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”

“Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.”

“Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.”

“Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”

“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”

“I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

“… most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”

“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”

“She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”

“Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.”

“Love is all.”

“True love comes when it will, not when it's called.”

“But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
-Ying Ying”

“Love is eternal while it lasts.”

“Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.”

“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.”

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.”

“I'm becoming
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross.”

“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”

“What is love? No one knows what love is, exactly. No one can define it. No one can prove it.”

“The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.”