Quotes About Love

Dominic Sandbrook

Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.

Louis] knew on some level that fame is not the story we tell; it is the story the world tells us. And the world was telling Louis it wanted to see itself reflected in gouache and charcoal of painted calico; that the human eye longed to trust the illusion of likeness. Render perfectly a meadow at dusk, a horizon at dawn, and people will love you for it. For giving them something they didn't know they already had.

What other half-buried things did I know about my own grief and wife that, if asked about directly, I could surrender? That for several years I kept Clare's mobile phone active because I didn't want anyone else to take her phone number. That during the time before I released the number, I sent her texts from work, only to come home and read them on the phone that was always charging by her side of the bed.

Harry, I think I'm beginning to love you," said Kitt. "No, let's not fall in love, Kitt." "No?" "No. It's too complicated." "Yes, yes, you're right, of course, no love. Lots of lovely lust. No love. It's already too complicated.

She understood instinctively that when one was married, love affairs had a natural termination.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

The key to longevity is the purity of one's heart.

Of all things, only the heart is measure. And those who have hearts are always the hope of mankind.

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.

The more he loved and was loved, the better his life got. At once it seemed to Jack like a magical solution to everything. If only everyone loved everyone else! Then there would be no trouble in the world. It seemed so easy. If we all just reached our hands out to each other, what peaks of human joy could we not achieve!

It was an awful word. Nothing. It made him sick at heart. He refused to believe it. Hebdemanded that there be something he could do. He demanded that his love be worth something to his child. If it wasn't, life was garbage. He hd to rulenout the idea that life was just a matter of accident, of percentages, because it was just too goddamn much to stand for. There had to be some way you could make yourself be felt.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be 'lost in the objectivity of world-love', as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is 'eternal' life.

The mystic attempts to overcome dogma, insisting that God, Christ and heaven are not 'up there' but are to be found in the heart by desire, by love, by the will; that is, by a path of inner purification.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

Crucifícalo, crucifícalo.

Porque cualquiera que hiciere la voluntad de mi padre, que está en los cielos, ese es mi hermano, y mi hermana, y mi madre. 13

cuántas veces deberé perdonar a mi hermano cuando pecare contra mí? ¿Hasta siete veces? 22 Le respondió Jesús: No te digo yo hasta siete veces, sino hasta setenta veces siete. 23

19 Y yo por amor de ellos me santifico a mí mismo; con el fin de que ellos sean santificados en la verdad. 20

Dejen que vengan a mí los niños, y no se lo estorben porque de los que se asemejan a ellos es el reino de Dios.

16 Que amó tanto Dios al mundo, que no paró hasta dar a su Hijo unigénito, a fin de que todos los que creen en él, no perezcan, sino que vivan vida eterna.

14 Yo soy el buen Pastor: y conozco mis ovejas, y las ovejas mías me conocen a mí. 15 Así como el Padre me conoce a mí, así yo conozco al Padre: y doy mi vida por mis ovejas. 16 Tengo también otras ovejas,