Quotes about love

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“If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”

“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.”

“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.”

“I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”

“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”

“Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.”

“So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
What makes you think i ever stopped?”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.”

“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”

“You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.”

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”

“I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.”

“Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)”

“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her”

“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”

“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,
as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,
it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,
and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.”

“Nothing can be accomplished without love.”

“It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.”

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.
--Romeo”

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”

“Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.”

“I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.”

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”

“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.”

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”

“I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

“Don’t do it. Don’t love me.”

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”

“If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.”

“The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”

“To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything”

“Your love is like the wind… you cant see it, but you can feel it…”

“The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.”

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”

“Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.”

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”

“From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”

“courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway"

"A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life”

“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant…”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him.”

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”

“I know that each one of us travels to love alone,
alone to faith and to death.
I know it. I’ve tried it. It doesn’t help.
Let me come with you.”

“Well, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday and tell the world that everything's okay / But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back / 'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black.”

“I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.”

“Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.”

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being.”

“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”

“From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life”

“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”

“Wherever a heart beats with love, wherever Faith and Reason utter their oracles, there is God, as formerly in the hearts of seers and prophets. No soil on earth is so holy as the good man’s heart.”

“Endymion, you are my first love, my only love… even if we're reborn, in another life, we'll find each other… and then… We'll fall in love again… - Princess Serenity”

“I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.”

“She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”

“He loved Big Brother.”

“Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.”

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.”

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”

“Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.”

“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”

“Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.”

“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.”

“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.”

“Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”

“Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind”

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”

“We didn't love freedom enough.”

“Love me like you'll never see me again.”

“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”

“The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”

“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.”

“We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?”

“There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
-George to Alanna”

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

“We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.”

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”

“I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”