L Quotes
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“Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.”
“Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.”
Source: Succubus Blues
“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
“Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.”
“Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.”
“Love is REAL, it is a DEAL, a SEAL, a MEAL that HEAL.”
“Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.”
“Love is real, real is love.”
“Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.”
“Love is Reality’s most powerful expression.”
Source: Evolution in Divine Love: The Eternal Becoming of God, Soul, and Matter
“Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.”
“Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them.”
“Love is really a highway robber:
1) He waits in ambush through the night,
2) He is a desperado,
3) and in the end he strips us naked.”
“Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.”
“LOVE is reciprocal. Love is superior to knowledge. Confusion is rooted in absence of love. Therefore love, have love and you would be loved back. When you find LOVE, let your LOVE be built On VALUES that ENDURE.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.”
“Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.”
“Love is reducing the universe to one being.”
“Love is relative to the moment.”
Source: ABOVE AND BEYOND: My Spiritual Journey
“Love is relentless, and so am I ;)”
“love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.”
Source: The Obituary Writer: A Novel
“Love is respect,
recognition and honour
given without expectation.”
Source: The Backpack
“Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.”
Source: I and Thou
“Love is richest, most genuine, and most long lasting when you focus on being yourself and doing everything you can to make it possible for the other person to be him- or herself.”
Source: Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives
“Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
“Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.”
“Love is sacred state of mind, body and soul.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore love and compassion is the perfume of sacredness. It sounds rather poetic, but...God IS poetry.”
“Love is sacrifice.”
Source: Finding Mera
“Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.”
Source: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“Love is sad, just like the hate, makes you want to kill or die, 'cause love is love.”
“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.”
Source: The real George Washington
“Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.”
“Love is saying yes to belonging.”
Source: Belonging to the universe: explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality
“Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.”
“Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.”
“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
“Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.”
Source: Wisdom for the New Millennium
“Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.”
“Love is seeking the good and being the good.”
“Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.”
Source: Baby Proof: A Novel
“Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.”
Source: Losing Julia
“Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.”
“Love is selfish yet a selfless feeling.”
“Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.”
Source: Girl Talk
“Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.”
“Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.”
“Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.”
“Love is sensual and celestial.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Love is sentimental measles.”