Love Quotes - Page 164

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.

Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.

I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate.

Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

Love's tongue is in the eyes.

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions?

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

Teenagers don't know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn't love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him. That's love.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.