Quotes About Love

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

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

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

No matter how intellectual and multicolored motherhood becomes as children grow older, the part that says My purpose on earth is to keep you alive has never totally dissipated. Magical thinking on all sides.

The experience delivered me into the central project of my adult life as a writer, which is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others to do the same.

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

Si no tenemos paz es porque hemos olvidado que nos pertenecemos unos a otros.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

I heard somebody define heaven once," she said, looking at Pearl, "as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you.

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

I say nothing against friendship, for I have tasted the sweets of it, and I know nothing of love, having never myself experienced a touch of it, but I find that in the making of poetry love is the most useful of all the themes that a poet may play upon.

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

When a person has fallen in love with God, both his ethical commitments and aesthetical pleasures become focused and satisfying. But when the religious is lost, ethics devolves into, first, a fussy legalism, and then is swallowed up completely by the lust for personal satisfaction.

But the true emperor, Luke is telling us, arrives vulnerable and exposed, because the good life is not about the protection of the ego, but rather about the willingness to become open to the other in love.

One of Barron's maxims is "The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.

If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 Jn 4:20).

Only when you've had that experience of falling in love with something, Barron believes, will learning the rules that support it make sense. Otherwise, "rule-talk" is always going to seem like someone trying to control another, like an exercise in power rather than liberation to play the game well.