Love Quotes - Page 405

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!

I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.