L Quotes
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“Love in my world usually ended up with someone hearing “I smite thee!” as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life.”
Source: Daimon
“Love in romantic relations is a many-tempered subject, can really not be seen through a single lens. A great number of people will say that they "want love". And it's true: they want LOVE no matter where it comes from, as long as love is being given to them. They'll want it even when it comes from someone they don't like, someone they don't admire, can't stand to be around, and don't even know well enough to say what their favourite colour is. In this light, I do not want love. I don't want love in itself, distinguished apart from where it is coming from. I want to love someone that I want to be around; someone I am connected to in a way that their presence sparks with my presence. I want a person to belong to, because I want to belong to that specific person. Coming home to someone because I like being home with that someone. Because they can add value to my life. So, I don't want love. Not the way that people do. I won't gulp love down no matter where it's coming from. I'd rather not. I will gulp down a person. And that person should want to gulp down me. And that's all I'm looking for.”
“Love in the air. Love has no form. It can have any shape and size. It has no definition. In fact, even defining love is incorrect. Love defies all rules and boundaries. It is not a prisoner to set norms or traditions.”
Source: Outlet from Loneliness
“Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.”
“Love—in the expansive way I now conceive of the term, based on my research and my experience—is the opposite of loneliness.”
Source: Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”
Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“Love in the heart makes a happy health human being.”
“Love in the heart of humans makes a happier humanity.”
“Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.”
“Love in the rain is better than hate in the sunshine.”
“Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you can’t love someone else.” - Georgina to Brandy”
Source: Succubus Shadows
“Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.”
“Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.”
Source: Light in August
“Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who love under God dream of another life where they can experience it and live it in God's perfect form, so they seek to build it in this life as much as possible.”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“Love, in this treacherous world? That’s a bold flag to fly.
— Captain Gus”
Source: Hamlet's Last Choice
“Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value.”
Source: Charity in Truth
“Love in war is an act of defiance. A fragile thing, born in blood and fire, clinging to moments stolen between battles. It is not the love of quiet homes and safe futures; it is reckless desperate, and fleeting. It is whispered apologies in the dark. It is hands gripping too tight, bodies moving too fast, lips crashing together because tomorrow is never promised. It is what exists when nothing else can.”
“Love in your heart is good medicine for long live. Hatred in your blood is the major cause of heart failure! Love people, get transfused with a fresh blood and you'll live long!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.”
Source: When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
“Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.”
“Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.”
“Love insists the loved loves back”
Source: Inferno
“Love inspires others to keep going and not give up.”
“Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.”
“Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
“Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.”
“Love irrigated everything with new meaning.”
Source: Real Americans
“LOVE is
what gives joy
to giving joy.”
“Love is . . . a madness most discreet”
“Love is . . .” An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my chest. It was stupid, feeling so lovesick when he’d been gone less than a day, but I couldn’t get him or the ways he described love out of my head. “. . . a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter’s night. A star that guides you home.”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.”
Source: The Last Time They Met
“Love is ... the bite into bread again.”
“Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.”
Source: The Modern Temper
“Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.”
“Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.”
“Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.”
“Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.”
Source: Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
“Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”
“Love is a battlefield, and sometimes, the casualties are your own dreams.”
“Love is a battlefield.”
Source: Pat Benatar - Greatest Hits (Songbook)
“Love is a beautifier.”
“Love is a beautiful dream.”
“Love is a beautiful feeling.”
“Love is a beautiful garden with the colourful flowers and fragrances. Its gardener is sex that maintains the beauty of it and nourishes to keep it fresh, regardless, time and period.”
“Love is a beautiful gem, yet not for trading. It is exquisite as the dawn opening its mouth and spilling the laughter of light, bewildering the world, what jewels could be coming out of it. Love is gold in the sunrise hour, yet a ruby in the sunset moment.”
“Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.”