L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.”
Source: Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside
“Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.”
Source: SHOGUN
“Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.”
“Love is a clash of lightnings”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
“Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.”
“Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.”
Source: Women who try too hard: breaking the pleaser habits
“Love is a coincidence that is never permanent,” he answered discreetly. “It is inertia, remember, inertia...”
Source: A Story of Yesterday
“Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself.”
“Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven.”
Source: Ever After
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
“Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.”
“Love is a command; but friendship is a choice.”
“Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.”
“Love is a commitment and an action. You have to dive all in. But love is where you find security, where you don’t have to show your perfect self every day.”
Source: Live
“Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
“Love is a commitment to cherish another's heart as if it were your own, it is an adventure to seek into all that creates them, it is laying under the stars and dreaming far and wide, it is seeing fear and grabbing each others to face it anyway, it is allowing another to be themselves with out your consent, it is knowing when darkness fills them you don't carry their burden; you just lighten their load. And if your love isn't as beautiful as this, why have you been loving the wrong one for so long?”
“Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.”
“Love is a compulsion you can’t subdue; an irresistible force, one can’t restrain! It’s not in our control, no matter how hard you try; like trying to curb and hold back when your bladder is full. There is no free will, you see.”
Source: Heaven's Gate
“Love is a concept invented by poor people.”
“Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.”
“Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.”
“Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.”
“Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Love is a conquest! Love is war!”
Source: Fairest
“Love is a conscious, brave choice to embrace vulnerability, knowing that the beauty and the inevitable imperfections of human connection are what make it real”
“Love is a conscious matter growing and rising from the heart.
Its manifestation is an enlightening awareness from within the soul.
It blooms for the core of our being and cannot be materialized.
It’s a higher consciousness of realty with a deeprooted sense of beauty.”
“Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.”
“Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.”
Source: The jeweller's shop: a meditation on the sacrament of matrimony, passing on occasion into a drama
“Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.”
“Love is a contact sport you were born to win.”
“Love is a context of heartbeats; intimacy is its dictionary; use it carefully and properly; otherwise, typos can cause risks in it.”
“Love is a context, not a behavior.”
“Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”
“Love is a contradiction.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Love
is a conviction backed by moral conduct,
it’s not theatrical hypocrites
but divine beauty that is,
manifested deep within a human heart.
Love
is a pelagic ocean that is open
to receive the ardent power of care and hope.
Love”
“Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.”
“Love is a credulous thing.”
Source: The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid
“love is a cruel and terrible master.”
Source: The Secret History
“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
“Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.”
Source: Perfect
“Love is a daily revel, a celebration of the magic of the ‘present moment’ rather than an elusive expectation of the future. (“Another empty room”)”
“Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.”
“Love is a dance.”
“Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace.”
Source: Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
“Love is a dangerous angel.”
Source: Weetzie Bat
“Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.”
“Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.”
“Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.”
“love is a dangerous weapon
inflicts pain & pleasure
will only surrender
to the criminal
who steals my heart of gold,
treats me like a precious treasure
to live a story never been told.”
“Love is a deadly affair.”
Source: Reckless II: Living Shadows