Quotes About Love

Mothers don't need to be perfect, and can't be. The perfection, when there, is supplied through the eyes of the child—who, when the mother does a good-enough job meeting her basic needs, feels total adoration

Nurturing touch has all sorts of physiological benefits, including promoting the growth of the nervous system, stimulating the immune system, and decreasing stress hormones, but let's focus on the emotional and psychological value. It is through nurturing touch that we feel loved, soothed, and protected.

He had not felt loved by his mother and had experienced difficulty in receiving love since, so he didn't have some of the healing vectors that can counteract traumatic events. He had resources to help others but not the resources to save himself.

Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Woke up in bed with a gorgeous woman, who I'm going to have lunch and the rest of my life with.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

A puzzle is something you figure out and you're done with—a crossword, sudoku, a Rubik's cube. A mystery is more like the face of someone you love. The more you know, the more there is to be known, and the more you want to know. ... a mystery has no bottom.

Modern, technique-based ways of reading have their place, but reading scripture is not complete until the church loves God and neighbor more.

If you can read the Song of Songs without blushing a little, you're doing it wrong, and Origen wants us to do more than blush.

With an eye trained for finding this God, an ear tuned to his voice, we learn to find him again and again. Every beloved loves her lover in his specificity—his face, his hands, his voice— and love leads her to "act in all respect and regulate her every movement in a manner designed to please the man she loves".

The point of the Bible isn't to learn what it says. The point of going to church isn't to be more religious. The point of both is to be made into nothing but love of God and neighbor.

Delight is a social phenomenon. It is imitative. We delight in what we see others delighting in—especially those we admire. ... All other projects of group enthusiasm are pale imitations of what the church is meant to be—a body of believers incandescent with Christ's love.

God, on Christian lights, isn't just high, lofty, far away, distant, unsullied with us. God, in Christian thought, is Jewish. Human. Not just great and holy but little and lowly. ... God becomes our neighbour. ... If it takes a neighbour's desire to set ours alight, then the one living and true God will become that flesh-and-blood neighbour.

The last time I thanked my wife, Nancy-Ann, for enduring the tribulations of being a book writer's spouse, I kept it simple, noting only that she was the best thing that had ever happened to me. She still is.

I am sad because they're in a far place," Tita said. Emet was especially susceptible to nostalgia for the bad old days in the slums. "I was happier then, because I was with my children." One reason Rosalie had left Lara behind was that she felt her parents needed children to love.

A good provider is one who leaves.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.

Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.