L Quotes
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“Love's Great Adventure by Stewart Stafford
Look out for the wandering eye,
And the fervour that follows it,
A jewel clasped is the first part,
Guarding against theft is trickier.
Surreptitious teases acted out then,
The Rubicon crossed and drained,
Love, blind to impediment boundaries,
Prized contagion spread as lightning.
Rival houses intrude to spoil it,
To still the fluttering of butterflies,
And the bosom of Eros heaving,
Unstoppable to every homo sapien.
Here, I'll act as Cupid's emissary,
Whisper lovers' spells in my ear,
I'll parrot them to her to the letter,
So lured, she'll have me over you.
Groggy from humid moon nectar,
On summertime clouded visions,
A second an hour, as a day a year,
Arousal of fire in swelled chests.
Stallions of the Venus chariot,
Borne freely to the new Arcadia,
Feet skimming over terra firma,
The youthful mask smothers all.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“Love's guiding star, our eternal memoir, leading us through the darkest night with its gentle glow.”
Source: LOVE'S JOURNEY: THE REALM OF EMOTION
“Love’s journey to the land of spirits is the manifestation of goodwill and kindness.”
“Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.”
Source: Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters
“Love's light conquers hate's darkness.”
“Love's melody plays on, even when the dance slows down.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Love's night and a lamp
Judged our vows:
That she would love me ever
And I should never leave her.
Love's night and you, lamp,
Witnessed the pact.
Today the vow runs:
"Oaths such as these, waterwords."
Tonight, lamp,
Witness her lying
- In other arms.”
Source: The Poems of Meleager
“Love's other name is trust, if trust breaks, in any circumstances, remains nothing, except the separation between two hearts forever.”
“Love's Plight"
Thick headed cement brain
Blind to love's terrain
Absent heart casted holiday
Please tailored talk plain
Opportunity missed the train
Cupid's arrow layed slain
Love wished to stay
Tears grown the stain
Heart and mind complained
To lose or gained
It as it may
One's soul soon waned
Couldn't be more sane
Love's plight made main
Stolen kiss gone array
True north sought reign
Copyright ©️ Laura DeGrave”
Source: Rustle in the Leaves
“Love’s secret…
two imperfect souls, sharing a life.
Listen. Words are expressed for a reason.
Observe. Reasons are sometimes unspoken.
Breathe, before expressing.
Silence is often better than unformed expression.
Understanding… that two imperfect souls, share a life, can be all you need to know.”
Source: Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations
“Love’s space
In the distance, not too far but far enough,
I had once seen her walking with someone,
And that single, casual visual encounter was enough,
To think of her always and that mysterious someone,
They walked for a while and then sat under a tree,
There they spoke of past while they were still discovering the present,
And I wondered of my own future under the tree,
Long after they had left, when I was dealing with my own present,
I had somehow anchored my likings on her,
My thoughts always felt her presence,
She was there under the tree and I was with her,
Although in reality she was exploring her own present in that someone’s presence,
Yet I loved to return to the tree and be there for hours,
Thinking of her and the future that could be,
Her and mine, just ours, and then it would create for us unending hours,
I so deeply wished if it could be, only if it could be,
The tree is there, the stream too,
I am always there between the stream and the tree,
They both know it too,
But what I wish for the girl and myself, the stream wishes for the tree,
So whenever I am under the tree thinking of her,
The stream flows by looking at the motionless and stationary tree,
And then both remind me of her,
Both the stream and the tree,
Now it is winter and the stream has frozen,
Just like the tree, motionless and anchored in eternity of nowhere,
And in me, just like the stream, her thoughts and feelings are frozen,
Because she now is the everywhere and everything in my emotional state called nowhere,
Like the stream that to express her feelings of love towards the never moving tree,
Froze itself completely and turned still,
To feel the feelings of her darling and ever still tree,
That even in her frozen state she loves still, in ways silent and still,
So I share the stream’s irony or maybe I share the trees stillness,
Its silence, where it quietly discloses that it never moves anywhere because it loves the stream,
That always flows through its roots of love, and when the tree feels this romantic stillness,
It decides to lie anchored on the banks of the stream, to enjoy his love’s accessible stream,
And I feel the same for her whenever I am under the tree,
Or with the stream that flows beside it,
For she still exists there, frozen for my sake by the always still tree,
And her reflection too is frozen in the running water of the stream, and I love feeling the wonder of it,
All of it, the stream, the tree, she; and her frozen reflection in the stream’s water,
And whenever I am here, the tree bends a bit, the stream slows her pace,
And I see her beautiful face in the flowing water, the stream’s clear water,
And then I too slow down my life’s pace, in this love’s own space, where time always loses its pace!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Love’s strength lies in its unwavering support and gentle understanding.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Love's tender touch, a gift divine, soothing our worries and healing our pain, every single time.”
Source: LOVE'S JOURNEY: THE REALM OF EMOTION
“Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers
or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.
For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair
like treasure on the ground; the Midas light
turning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for here
we are millionaires, backhanding the night
so nothing dark will end our shining hour,
no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit
hung from the blade of grass at your ear,
no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit
than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,
but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.”
Source: Rapture
“Love’s value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.”
“Love's vibrant colors, painting our days, in shades of joy, in hues of praise.”
Source: LOVE'S JOURNEY: THE REALM OF EMOTION
“Love’s voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart”
“Love's weaknesses are better than hate's strengths.”
“Love’s worth being brave, ain’t it? Brave again and again and again.”
Source: The Heart of the Mountains
“Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.”
“Love said to me, don’t try to define me,
If you think you can put me into words,
alas, my friend, you are at loss.
I am hidden from hidden things,
secrete of secretes.
I am different in each heart,
a hundred million faces,
a hundred million languages—
without a single word.
If you think you can define me,
alas, my friend, you are at loss.”
“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”
“Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.”
Source: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
“Love saves life.”
“Love, say what you want, do what you can, hope for the best, and surrender the rest.”
Source: Merry Christians: How to Be a Happy Christian and Co-Create Heaven on Earth
“Love says, I have her in the palm of my hands and I will massage away any doubts and any fears until she stands confidently, and securely in my love for her. Ego says, “I have her in the palm of my hands and I will manipulate her until she is weak, fearful and totally dependent on me; only then can I be certain of her love for me. Choose love.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.”
“Love says to a husband, ‘I love you too much to help you do wrong. I will not sit here and let you destroy yourself and me by cursing me every night. I cannot make you stop cursing, but I will not be here to receive it tonight. If you want to make our lives better, then I am open. But I won’t be a part of letting you destroy me.’
“Your attitude is not to be one of abandonment but of love,” (...)“ there is never a time to stop loving someone, but there is a time to start expressing that love in a different, more effective manner. Love is not letting someone step on you. Love is caring so much for their well-being that you refuse to play into their sick behavior. Many people are healed when someone loves them enough to stand up to their inappropriate actions.”
Source: Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed
“Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!”
Source: Braided Lives
“Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.”
“Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.”
“Love scenes are always weird, though. They're always uncomfortable. It's all the people around who make it uncomfortable. It's not usually the actor you're working with, because they usually feel just as weird as you do!”
“Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'”
“Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“Love seeketh not Itself to please
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.'
So sung a little Clod of Clay
Trodden with the cattle's feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
'Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to Its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.”
Source: Songs of Innocence and Experience
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.”
“Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.”
Source: The Marriage of Guenevere: A Tragedy
“Love seeks its life outside itself; self seeks its life in itself. Love, in order to secure and produce, sacrifices selfishness; while self, in order to possess, keeps itself and sacrifices love.”
Source: The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition
“Love seeks light, not darkness”
Source: Confessions of a War Child
“Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.”
“Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.”
Source: Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.”
“Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.”
Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade
“Love seems to be the appreciation that we are all little lumps in the same earthly soup which is a little lump in a larger cosmic soup. So, love is an awareness of this beautiful energetic relationship and a natural appreciation of this situation. It doesn't seem to be a matter of finding love...it's a matter of being aware of it. It's not a question of invention but rather discovery.”
“Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.”