Best 4156 quotes in «love is quotes» category

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love the I/thou relationship. Martin Buber stops there; his Judaic tradition won't allow him to go further. But one step more has to be taken that is neither 'I' nor 'thou' - a relationship where I and thou disappear, a relationship where two persons no longer function as two but function as one. A tremendous unity, a harmony, a deep accord - two bodies but one soul. That is the highest quality of love. I call it prayerfulness.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. I've been in therapy since '87. What I learned was, that connection that I was looking for that I thought was really romantic love, my therapist literally said, "Well, when you feel that next, you probably shouldn't go towards that for a partner.

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek

The only 'anti-fascist' song that makes any sense to me is the Beatles' 'Love Is All You Need', because, quite simply, it's true.

The only ground of God's love is his love.

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.

The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.

The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone - or many people - you believe in them and you believe in who they are and what they can do...then your belief has to go to an eternal presence because when you really care for someone you can't bear the thought of never seeing them again. You want that mystery of eternity to be real.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it’s like to live without it.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

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.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

The origin of love is the beautiful light of the soul.

The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.