L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
“Love falling and bleeding your knees or dont think about it at all.”
“Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.”
“Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.”
“Love. Family. Vulnerability … Her three weakest points all brewed together to make her feel wholly unlike herself.”
Source: The House Witch 3
“Love fattens on smooth words.”
Source: Me: Stories of My Life
“Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.”
Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love
“Love feeds on deception.”
“Love, feeling, purity, and compassion are the human values; otherwise, without that human is, just the odour as the animals.”
“Love, feelings, all that mushy stuff—if it was ever real, it never goes away.”
Source: Dreaming of Hiraeth
“Love feels good. It’s perfectly balanced, and it never involves sacrifice. If it doesn’t feel good, if it's obsessive/needy, or if demands some kind of sacrifice from you, it’s not love.”
“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible”
“Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.”
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.”
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”
“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”
Source: A Room With A View: England Literature
“Love fights with a kiss; hate fights with a fist.”
“Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.”
“Love fills the infinite.”
“Love find out what people need and helps them get it.”
Source: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. The temple of fame. January and May. The wife of Bath. The first book of Statius's Thebais. The fable of Dryope. Vertumnus and Pomona. Imitations [of English poets] Miscellanies. Epitaphs
“Love finds its justice in the hatred and
opposition to the wrong.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“Love finds us where we are, not where we were.”
“Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.”
Source: Wide Awake Boxset
“Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.”
Source: The Spell of Summer
“Love first; ask questions later.”
Source: Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time
“Love first, reason later.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.”
“Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.”
“Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.”
“Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence... Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.”
“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be a real smile, not yet, just some passing gas or a random quiver of his lip, but I know she's wrong.”
Source: The Girl Before
“Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.”
“Love follows knowledge.”
Source: On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Thomas Aquinas in Translation)
“Love foods that sustain and protect you, and love you back.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.”
“Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“Love For All; Hatred for None”
“Love, for beloved, cannot be exchanged as the money everywhere; it belongs to only the kingdom of the beloved's heart. It is un-exchangeable.”
“Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we’re to have a future worth living.”
“Love for coworkers, love for customers, love for the product and love for self. Walt Disney instilled all of these "loves" in his company. Each of these factors is critical to achieving success in any organization.”
“Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ. Parental love for children has more meaning here and hereafter because of Him. All loving relationships are elevated in Him. Love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ provides the illumination, inspiration, and motivation to love others in a loftier way.”
“Love, for Gandhi, was a potent instrument for social and collective transformation. It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking for so many months. The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social-contracts theory of Hobbes, the “back to nature” optimism of Rousseau, the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.”
“Love for God must precede service for God. Labor for God must be the overflow of love for God. Whenever we reverse the order, all of our ministry, including our work for God, become a dutiful task. The order in the Great Commandment is love for God before labor for God, allegiance to God before an assignment from God, intimacy with God before service for God.”
Source: Intimacy with God: Drawing Ever Closer to the Almighty
“Love for her welled up so strong, so intense, the pressure in his chest made him feel as if he might be having a heart attack.”
Source: Vengeance Road