Love Quotes - Page 52

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You are my greatest gift and I seal it with a kiss.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.