L Quotes
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“Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“Love, honor, and negotiate.”
Source: The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for
“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton
“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
“Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.”
“Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.”
“Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)”
Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
“Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.”
Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
“Love, I find, is like singing.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.”
Source: Simply Magic
“Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.”
Source: The Cream of the Jest
“Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”
Source: Dog Years: A Memoir
“Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.”
“Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.”
Source: A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel
“Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
“Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.”
“Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.”
Source: Open Confession to a Man from a Woman
“Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
“Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.”
“Love, in its purest form, is biology.”
“Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience”
“Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.”
“Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.”
“Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.”
“Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
“Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.”
“love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.”
“Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!”
Source: Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel
“Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?”
“Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.”
“Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.”
“Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.”
Source: How to be Good
“Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”
Source: The Coast of Chicago: Stories
“Love, joy and peace for the world, that’s what I want...peace for the world and love.”
“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”
“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”
Source: Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life
“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.”
Source: Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life
“Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.”
“Love, life, meaning...over.”
Source: New Moon
“Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday”
“Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.”
“Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.”
“Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.”
“Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.”