Love Is Quotes - Page 184

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

The reason I love being a senator is that I can have whatever thoughts I have, say whatever I want about any subject at any time, and that is a wonderful feeling of freedom, and I cherish that.

Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.