Love Quotes - Page 169

The best love affairs are those we never had.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.

If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.

I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

With the same intensity that the Father loves Jesus, He loves you.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.