Love Is Quotes - Page 125

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

Love is for friends & pets...and family...only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.

Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.

Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.

Love is a kind of military service

There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

To love is an active verb.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.