L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.”
“Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter”
“Love cannot be indifferent to the needs of suffering and afflicted people”
“Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.”
“Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.”
“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
Source: The Luminaries
“Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.”
“Love cannot be sought. It cannot be forced. It is a seed released from the heart, then carried along by wind,
lands in another heart and germinates. It’s accidental.”
Source: The Alien
“Love cannot be stolen. It can only be given. And it always takes two to make it happen. -- Mama Bear”
Source: Dark Longing
“Love cannot be taught, but self-love can be learned.”
“Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.”
“Love cannot birth hate.”
“Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.”
“Love cannot exist when the chain of give-and-take is broken.”
“Love cannot exist when there is a self. Love is boundless. It is selfless, and therefore it exists beyond the confines and limitations of the self. Love is much more than a word: It is an immeasurable force that only exists when there is no division, when one is whole.”
Source: Freedom From the Self: The End of Delusion, Fear, Hurt and Suffering
“Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.”
Source: On Education
“Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.”
“Love cannot grow between two people when dark secrets simmer beneath.”
Source: Return of the Highland Laird
“Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jack London – 22 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Burning Daylight, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, The Valley of the Moon, The Star Rover, Hearts of Three…
“Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.”
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”
Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
“Love cannot pain, desire can.”
Source: Destiny of Shattered Dreams
“Love cannot penetrate what truth does not facilitate”
Source: Knots In Aunty's Rope
“Love cannot reconcile with deception”
“Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.”
“Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”
“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
“Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.”
Source: Winter's Child
“Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing”
“Love,' Cardan goes on. 'That force that compels us to be sometimes better and often worse. That power by which we can all be bound. That which we ought to fear and yet most desire...”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Love cares for no one.
The bees never seem to have enough of clover,
The goats never seem to have enough of leaves,
The meadows never enough of freshening water;
Love never seems to have enough of tears.”
Source: The Eclogues
“Love, caring, and the spirit of kindness always bring happiness. Our greatest happiness depends on what we love, how we care, and how we share.”
“Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.”
“Love cars, love people, love life.”
“Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.”
“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.”
Source: Ape and Essence: A Novel
“Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.”
“Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.”
“Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.”
“Love ceases to be a Puzzle the Moment you find the Missing Piece.”
Source: If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
“Love certainly draws us on, making learning feel more like discovery and making work feel worth it, even when that work doesn’t exactly feel like play.”
Source: Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge
“Love changes everything it touches”
“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”
“Love changes people, for the better or the worst.”
“Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.”
“Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.”
“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”
Source: Black Heart
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible”
Source: Crossed
“Love changes, and in change is true.”
Source: New Collected Poems