Love Quotes - Page 297

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant. Celebrate through surrender.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.