L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“Love, non-violence and turning the other cheek to your enemies are the softest and sweetest names you can give to this troubled world.”
“Love not Allegiance (A Sonnet)
If I am remembered O Soldier of Destiny,
Remember me with love not allegiance.
If you place me on the altar of your heart,
Make it not exclusive but exude acceptance.
When the darkness around bothers you,
Bask all you want in my timeless light.
But when you see others in darkness,
Forget your needs and serve with delight.
My heart will never leave your backbone,
So long as you have a cell crying for others.
I will receive honor and my highest reward,
When you annihilate yourself to wipe their tears.
I will keep burning through you for eternity,
Your actions will herald the victory of humanity.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“Love not because you have to attract someone, love because you have an abundance of love in your heart.”
“Love not often, but forever.”
Source: Holy Fools: A Novel
“Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.”
Source: Thoughts
“Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love.”
“Love not Pleasure; love God.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian
“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry
“Love.
Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio.
The real kind.
The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres.
The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish.
The kind that can forgive. The kind that believes in healing.
The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed.
The real kind of love.
It's rare and we have it...”
Source: Sophie & Carter
“Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of they heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“Love not what you are but only what you may become.”
“Love not with mere bod, but heart.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Love notes to my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita; I will always love you. I am grateful for a blessed life shared with you.”
“Love nurtures but also smothers, depending on the dose and perspective.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Love obeys no laws other than its own.”
Source: Annabel: A Delirium Short Story
“Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“Love of action is not industry.”
“Love of Allah cures and purifies the hearts.”
“Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.”
“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.”
“Love of an idea is the love of God.”
“Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.”
“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”
Source: The Magic of Recluce
“Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love of books is the best of all.”
“Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….”
“Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!”
“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”
Source: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series
“Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.”
“Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.”
“Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.”
“Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.”
“Love of country is the root of all war.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.”
“Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.”
“Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.”
“Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.”
“Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.”
“Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.”
“Love of God," he said slowly, searching for words, "is not always
the same as love of good, I wish it were that simple. We know what
is good, it is written in the Commandments. But God is not
contained only in the Commandments, you know; they are only an
infinitesimal part of Him. A man may abide by the Commandments
and be far from God.”
“Love of God is not always the same as love of good.”
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.”
“Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.”