Quotes About Love

Setback is like Grandma's muffins.

Love is the strongest feeling a person can feel and to have the one you love, love you back is the greatest gift you could ever receive.

But there's one thing you must remember. Whether you want it or not, once you have created bonds between you and other people, those bonds will never disappear.

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

Good guys are either taken or gay

Nothing is more painful than to wander in the world without the one you love.

Arbeiten und lieben — to work and to love; were these not Freud's measures of success?

Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.

Clara Claiborne Park

I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given the choice to accept the experience, with everything that it entails, or to refuse the bitter largesse, I would have to stretch out my hands — because out of it has come, for all of us, an unimagined life. And I will not change the last word of the story. It is still love.

Without you my tomorrow wouldn't be worth the wait, and my yesterdays wouldn't be worth remembering.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.

Being seized by powerful affects which agitate the mind or soul constitutes a grave danger to our being.41 All these disturbances happen, Spinoza continues, 'only in the love of those things that can perish, as [wealth, honour, sensual pleasure] can do. But love [amor] toward the eternal and infinite thing feeds the mind [animum] with a joy entirely exempt from sadness. This is greatly to be desired [desiderandum], and to be sought with all our strength.'42

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

He is not commanding us to demand our rights. The only right that love has is the right to give itself.

Love is not merely a weapon. It is not a strategy, and it may or may not work. To do good to those who hate you is such stupendous folly that it cannot be expected to work. Love didn't work for Jesus.

Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.