Love Quotes - Page 83

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow.