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 medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.”
“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”
“Love is a mental madness.”
“Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.”
“Love is a metaphysical gravity.”
“Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good; Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. The love of Jesus is noble, and inspires us to great deeds; it moves us always to desire perfection. Love aspires to high things, and is held back by nothing base. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God, and can rest only in God above all created things.
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.”
Source: The Inner Life
“Love is a mighty power,
a great and complete good.
Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
all bitterness sweet and acceptable.”
“Love is a mighty pretty thing; but like all other delicious things, it is cloying; and when the first transports of the passion begins to subside, which it assuredly will do, and yield—oftentimes too late—to more sober reflections, it serves to evince, that love is too dainty a food to live upon alone, and ought not to be considered farther, than as a necessary ingredient for that matrimonial happiness which results from a combination of causes; none of which are of greater importance, than that the object on whom it is placed, should possess good sense—good dispositions—and the means of supporting you in the way you have been brought up.”
“Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.”
“Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.”
“Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.”
“Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.”
“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”
“Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care”
Source: Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
“Love is a momentum it keeps moving, evolving, growing, shape-shifting never static.”
Source: ABOVE AND BEYOND: My Spiritual Journey
“Love is a more powerful force than magic. You can trick the mind and even the heart, but never the soul. When a person is not free to love with their soul, that is not love and that is why a love spell can never truly work.”
Source: Entangled
“Love. Is.
A most delicate sacrifice.
A most fragile offering
of your own whole heart.
And you survive the pain of loving
through the joy of loving.
Let it break.
It is the only way.”
Source: Water in My Wine
“Love is a muscle that gets stronger with exercise, and there is no more demanding exercise than letting go.”
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
Source: Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book
“Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.”
“Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.”
“Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?”
Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love
“Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940
“Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one.”
“Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness.”
“Love is a necessity for living.”
“Love is a necessity, just as lust is. Two instincts we modern humans have turned into our strongest emotions. Love gives us the desire to bond with a partner long enough to care for our children to an age when they can fend for themselves. Lust gives us the will to want to reproduce in the first place. These instincts are so deeply ingrained in our psyche that even with our advanced brains, they still govern us. We are now, for the most part, intelligent enough to decide who we want to love or have sex with. We can even control whether or not that sex results in offspring, but we can’t just ignore those instincts. From the simplest person to the most powerful kings, queens and presidents, our our lives are still governed by those two emotions.”
Source: Unparalleled
“Love is a negative form of hatred.”
Source: This Immortal
“Love is a net. It can catch you long after the person is no longer there.”
Source: Expiration Dates
“Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish”
“Love is a never ending smile...”
“Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“LOVE is a not a "Bed of Flowers". It is a "Game of Thorns". Bleeding is the essence of the game before having the fragrance the flower.”
“Love is a one way ticket to hell.”
“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Love is a paradox, finding strength in its vulnerability and resilience in its fragility.”
“Love is a passion
Which kindles honor into noble acts.”
“Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.”
Source: Chainfire
“Love is a path lined with roses.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Love is a path lined with roses." I say bitterly. "But it leads to a cliff's edge and all who follow it tumble to their doom. You will not find your happiness there.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.”
“Love is a peculiar thing.”
“Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.”
“Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.”
“Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.”
“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”
“Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.”
“Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds”
“Love is a pleasing but a various clime.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone