Quotes About Love

When an abusive man feels the powerful stirring inside that other people call love, he is probably largely feeling: The desire to have you devote your life to keeping him happy with no outside interference The desire to have sexual access The desire to impress others by having you be his partner The desire to possess and control you

Genuine love means respecting the humanity of the other person, wanting what is best for him or her, and supporting the other person's self-esteem and independence. This kind of love is incompatible with abuse and coercion.

You're going to live your life. You're going to honor him doing things you would have done if he'd never gotten sick and died

The book breathless is so sad but at the begging it is happy and the part that I'm at is sad because the guy that has cancer he wants to kill his self it is so sad I just kind of like it right know but it is sad to me and when I make kids read it when I have kids it will be so cool.

È difficile cucire armoniosamente assieme la responsabilità di un gregge amato da difendere e la giusta misura nel riprendere le pecore smarrite lungo la strada, traviate dall'intelletto, da cattive letture e insane deduzioni.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole earth, shedding light in the dark places which so sadly needed light . His memory calls forth my most sincere homage, love, and esteem. {Burbank on the great Robert Ingersoll , whom he admired so much that he requested Ingersoll 's eulogy for his brother, Ebon Ingersoll, to be read at his own funeral}

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

People relinquish ownership of their lives so quickly (especially where love is concerned) that the responsibility for what happens to us relative to knowing those people automatically falls on them as if we had no control.

Desejo, sonho e medo, o amor é um salto sem rede entre a razão e a magia. (E só assim vale a pena).

Volto à família: um ambiente duro em casa não prepara para enfrentar a dureza da vida, como alguns preconizam. Ao contrário: para saber defender-me no terreno violento em que vivemos preciso ter uma sólida raiz de afetos.

He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this was necessary. That scars only concealed, and finally helped to reveal, an essential peace. He said that what we, who pass so swiftly, experience as songs of love or cries of pain are only overtones to a single note in a very much larger harmony.

Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously. Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes. Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.

The only thing big enough to conquer this kind of fear is God, who rules every detail of every day of your life. Rest assured that nothing can touch you apart from your heavenly Father's permission. Out of his love for you, he is well able to prevent the thing you are so afraid of, and out of that same love he might allow it. Either way, whatever happens, he only allows what is going to work for your eternal happiness and blessing and his glory.

The Holy Spirit doesn't give us more love or more faithfulness or more joy. He gives us Christ, and as he does, joy and all the rest are produced within us as the fruit of that union (p. 73).

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.