L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love ans desire aren't the same”
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.”
“Love, aren’t you the one who lights soul’s fire?
My earthly heart gets cold
but I sustain the shivers boldly.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys
and shores of universal life
and play with pebbles of destiny.”
Source: THE PATH OF WISDOM: Poetry for a new heaven
“Love aright and you will never be sad. Embrace God's will and you will be filled with joy and peace.”
“Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.”
“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
Source: My Life In Art
“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Love, as a currency of the heart, is the most valuable investment in time. Wherever you go, spread its seeds generously, for lost moments of love are echoes that can never be retrieved.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“Love as a function of kindness and generosity solves every problem.”
“love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.”
“Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.”
“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals.”
Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays
“Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Love as hard as you can, at all times”
“Love, as I'd understood it- through my mama- wasn't like the wind. Indifference was like that. Wind and indifference went wherever it pleased. Settling down when it benefited them, moving on without warning, even if it ripped a home or two apart on the way out. Love was like the sun- always there. It might've looked like it was moving- but it was forever still.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“Love as if love is the only way to live.”
“Love as if you were created by the universe just to love.”
“Love as is love is the oxygen of life.”
“Love—as it is in the wild, no fingerprints on the glass—knows nothing of time. If you were lucky enough for your first fall to be in love and not loss, you might get what I'm talking about. The pure stuff, like flying before you look down. Like learning that the body you thought you had to fill out all by yourself actually came with an extension; that neither worked alone, but together—bam, all of the lights come on.
That's how love is supposed to be. When you add in time, however, it does what time always does. Brings everything, eventually, inevitably, to its end.
After loss, love is never the same. That is not to say you won't love another, maybe even more than ever before. But as you love them, you will mourn them. You'll try not to, of course. Try to say, "You'll never know." But you do. You know.
And every inch gained in flight is an inch added to the fall.
That's why, when you're flat-backed on the belt, we don't cut the love out. Every time you manage to think about that which you love—remember a face or a smell—you will be bird-dogged, instantly, by the bone saw of reality. Not how it will end, but how it always has.
Love tortures you more than we ever could.”
Source: Sign Here
“Love, as it turned out, was the ultimate coup.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.”
“Love as much as you can from wherever you are.”
Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
“Love as much as you can from wherever you are. This line is especially good to recall when you feel frightened, crazy, or have taken some bad dope. Write it on the wall of your room. You may not want to love what you feel or see, you may not be able to convince yourself that you could love it at all. But just decide to love it. Say out loud that you love it, even if you don't believe it. And say, "I love myself for hating this."”
“Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Love, as she knew it, did not make a person feel vulnerable and defenseless, or generate confusion, or send butterflies in one's stomach! It didn't make one want to laugh and cry at the same time, or feel annoyed and excited in a flash, or want to inflict pain or care for someone simultaneously. It didn't make one despise oneself for responding to a kiss like that, wanting it to end, and yet feeling such unbearable longing and yearning for it, needing it to go on and on and on. Love, she admonished herself firmly, doesn't make one do or feel those things.”
“Love as thou wilt”
Source: Kushiel's Chosen
“Love as Thought is Truth.”
Source: Education in human values
“Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence.”
“Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.”
“Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.”
“Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.”
“Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love. Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.”
“Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.”
Source: Free Admission
“love at any age takes everything you've got.”
Source: Measure of My Days
“Love at first life!”
Source: The New Land
“Love, at first sight, could only bring an approach. It only depends upon the first person how to making the second person fall in love. The ardent soul would give no guarantee of love.”
“Love at first sight had always seemed a ridiculous thing to him, fairy tale stuff, but on that morning when he looked at Olivia nothing else had mattered, whatever matter. She was beautiful, but it wasn't that, it was something else, some strange compulsion that made him feel that he'd known her for a thousand years, that he'd been waiting all his life for her to some into it.”
Source: Easter at the Lakes
“Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants fuck a stranger”
Source: Goodbye Girl
“Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger.”
Source: Goodbye Girl
“Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.”
Source: Autobiography: The life story of a pioneer psychoanalyst
“Love at first sight is easy to understand. It’s when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.”
“Love at first sight is extremely rare,
It happens only in 4 percent in the world.
What you truly want, it is true love
So, don’t rush it because it develops slow.”
Source: The Art of Loving Intelligently: Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women Worldwide and the Reality about Them
“Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“love at first sight
is only possible
if the government
hasn't first
taken your eyes”
Source: Madness