Love Quotes - Page 158

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.

No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.

Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.