L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it.”
“Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.”
“Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.”
“Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting. It is leadership. The word "judicious" means requiring judgment, and judgment requires more than instinct; it requires thoughtful and often painful decisionmaking.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”
“Love is not so simple, like Chamistry you need many formulas to understand it.”
“Love is not so simple, like Chemistry you need many Formulas to understand it.”
“Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.”
“Love is not some responsibility,
Love is not reasonable,
It just happens.”
“Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.”
“Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.”
“Love is not something that becomes your weakness, love is something that becomes your strength. Let's not just fall in love, let's rise in love”
“Love is not something that happens, but something that simply is and always has been. One does not fall in love, one discovers it".”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Love is not something that happens just once and lasts uniformly throughout your lifetime. No, that kinda love can only exist in fictional stories.
But if you fall in and out of love with the same person, for countless number of times, each time rediscovering those feelings that you thought you had long lost in past and somehow it still feels as fresh as the morning dew...
That's the real deal, that's how it happens in real life.”
“Love is not something that you can get from somebody else, who has not attained to a state of joy. Everybody is asking to be loved, and pretending to love. You cannot love, because you do not know what consciousness is. You do not know the truth; you do not know the experience of the divine. You do not know what love is, because you have not yet gone deeper in
your consciousness. In this ignorance and blindness, love does not grow. If you really want to know love, forget about love and remember meditation.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, 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. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Love is not something we must try hard to do, love comes naturally, it is trusting that love is enough—That is the hard thing to do. It sounds simple, but even when the simple answer is right in front of us, since the feeling is complicated, we often pass up the right answer to look for a complicated answer to match it.
In the 1300s somewhere between seventy-five and two-hundred million people died from the black plague, which was a bacteria carried by fleas. Fleas are not a new problem, and the cure has been widely known long before the 1300s. It was simply to shave your hair off, wear clothes made from something coarse like goat hair, and to cover your skin in ash. The fleas lay eggs that stick to our hair, and with the hair gone, there is nowhere for the eggs to stick. The ash has the chemical hydroxide, which is enough to make the skin unlivable for the fleas.
Everyone knew that anyone with a shaved head and ash on their skin meant that they knew they had fleas. To avoid the shame, many people would rather put up with the fleas, as long as other people didn’t think they had them. Maybe the quote before Mark Twain coined his was, “It's better to keep your hair and appear free from fleas than shave your head and remove all doubt.”
Besides itching and inflammation, fleas were fine… sort of… that is, until those fleas got infected with the plague, and spread that deadly infection. Instead of shaving their heads, people tried any other thing, and about half of Europe died.
We shouldn’t be embarrassed to be human, and we shouldn’t feel stupid that we’re embarrassed, we should just talk about it, and get over it. Feeling unworthy of connection just for being human is the emotional plague, and we won’t know what it means to be human until we talk to other humans and realize they are scared and confused and definitely not perfect either.”
Source: Conflict and Connection: Anatomy of Mind and Emotion
“Love is not something you plan, it just happens.”
Source: I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
Source: Just One Year
“Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell”
“Love is not something you want to fall into, love is something you want to step intelligently into. If your loved one doesn't love the Lord than don't set your heart to it. It's not worth it.”
“Love is not special, lovers are!”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Love is not sports, there's no need to compete.”
“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.”
Source: The Song is You
“Love is not supposed to feel like a guessing game. Real love feels like an exhale.”
Source: Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)
“Love is not synonymous with dependency.
dependency can lead to a loss of individuality and self-sufficiency.”
Source: Rethinking Love
“Love is not talk or theory; it's action. In fact the Bible says that we cannot be walking in love if we see a brother in need, have what it takes to meet his need, and will not do anything to help him.”
“Love is not temporary. It endures everything even if it changes form. Even when it must be put away to handle harsher things, it's always there, ready to be called.”
Source: Mirror of My Soul
“Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.”
“Love is not the answer, peace is. Throughout my whole life I have experienced and seen others use love as a reason to treat people with unkindness by being controlling, jealous, shouting in anger, and projecting guilt and shame.
If you love someone but there is not peace in your heart when you think of that person then your work is not done. Do not stop at love, continue all the way towards the freedom of inner peace.
Love starts when peace begins. Without peace love is simply a mask for our insecurity, judgment, and egoic attachments.”
“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”
“love is not the expression of words and really you no need to show that when you act for them your sudden unconditional decision, work, non-sense, care shows everything.... that make them special one of your world......... Bharat Bhushan”
“Love is not the kiss. It's the breeze of the desire for total acceptance gently brushing by you”
Source: The Soulmatcher
“Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.”
“Love is not the love you have most likely learned about while growing up. Ego love is often tied in with condition, suffering, fear, and angst. Divine Love is unconditional and free.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Love is not the result of adequate sexual satisfaction, but sexual happiness—even the knowledge of the so-called sexual technique—is the result of love. If aside from everyday observation this thesis needed to be proved, such proof can be found in ample material of psychoanalytic data. The study of the most frequent sexual problems—frigidity in women, and the more or less severe forms of psychic impotence in men—show that the cause does not lie in a lack of knowledge of the right technique, but in the inhibitions which make it impossible to love. Fear of or hatred for the other sex are at the bottom of those difficulties, which prevent a person from giving himself completely, from acting spontaneously, from trusting the sexual partner in the immediacy and directness of physical closeness. If a sexually inhibited person can emerge from fear or hate, and hence become capable of loving, his or her sexual problems are solved. If not, no amount of knowledge about sexual techniques will help.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Love is not the search for another heart it is the awakening of our own humanity through someone else’s presence”
“Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.”
“Love is not the weather. It is the very sky.”
“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”
“Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.”
“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
“Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good.”
Source: The Power
“Love is not weakness, father: it is strength. Love is what taught my skin to feel and my eyes to see. Love is not a weapon: it is light.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
“Love is not what others feel about you,,,, its what feeling you share with others.”