L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love isn't something you deserve. It's something you're offered.”
Source: The Weight of Air: Library Edition
“Love isn’t something you find — it finds you. If you found it, it was never true love.”
“Love isn't something you have chase, earn, or prove.
Releasing old patterns allows you to return to yourself — so life can rise to your level.
—The Life of Your Love”
“Love isn't something you take from one to give to another. Love is to be shared among all; the more people we have in our family, the more love there will be to share.”
Source: The Beloved
“Love isn’t supposed to be cute and easy. It’s supposed to be raw and break you down until you find your true self. It’s supposed to be so potent and wonderful that you don’t want to remember the person you were before you experienced its greatness. That’s the kind of passion you search for your entire life.”
Source: Dominate
“Love isn’t supposed to keep you guessing,
it’s supposed to keep you growing.”
Source: WOMAN! And Twelve Shades of Blades
“Love isn’t the quest anymore; the new quest is the sensuality with which it is practiced.”
“Love isn't waiting for him to show up, it's waiting for you to show up.”
“Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.”
Source: Charming the Prince
“Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical”
“Love isn't a perfect state of caring.”
“Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Love isn't a weakness.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.”
Source: Return to Paradise
“love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.”
Source: Twilight's Serenade (Song of Alaska Book #3)
“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.”
“Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.”
Source: Essential Turgenev
“Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?”
“Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.”
“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
Source: Ugly Love: A Novel
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.”
“Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant. Celebrate through surrender.”
“Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.”
“Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!”
“Love isn't complicated, people are.”
“Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.”
Source: Love
“Love isn't how well you know someone, it is how they make you feel.”
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”
Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”
Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.”
“Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.”
Source: Mad Ship
“Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.”
“Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.”
Source: The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change
“Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.”
“Love isn't love until it's past.”
“Love isn't love until you give it away.”
“Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.”
“Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
“Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.”
“Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.”
“Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium.”
“Love isn't rational, it's instinctive”
“Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it”
“Love isn't restricted by time because every minute and every second creates beautiful memories.”
“Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.”
“Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”