L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things mind it, mind it!”
Source: Poems: With a Memoir
“Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.”
“Loving is a laborious and complex business.”
Source: Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel
“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.”
“Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack..”
“Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and
purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.”
“Loving is half of believing.”
“Loving is more important than living; without love, life has no meaning.”
“Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
“You are blessed doublee if you are in love”
- honeya
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.”
“Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.”
Source: Last Voyage of the Valentina
“Loving isn't loving unless you have the strength to let go when you have to.”
Source: Fit for a King
“Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.”
Source: Our Children are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success : an Essential Handbook for Parents, Teachers, Managers, and Those Governing
“Loving Jacks felt doomed from the start. But Evangeline had learned that love was more than a feeling. And it didn't have to be the safe choice, because love was more powerful than fear. It was the ultimate form of hope. It was stronger than curses.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.”
“Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.”
“Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.”
“Loving me with my shoes off
means loving my long brown legs,
sweet dears, as good as spoons;
and my feet, those two children
let out to play naked.”
Source: Love Poems
“Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.”
“Loving means getting rid of names.”
“Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.”
“Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.”
“Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going”
“Loving myself radically and being kind to myself radically means making an island of myself to which only a few have the strength to swim.”
“Loving neighbour as yourself satisfies enough need.”
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.
Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.
Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.”
Source: The age of reason
“Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.”
“Loving one another is half of wisdom.”
“Loving one another isn’t enough to make a relationship last. The real glue that holds a couple (or friends or family) together is the effort both put into helping others who are in need of financial, health, personal or emotional assistance. Today, sustain your connection to a loved one by finding ways you both can help others, with a genuine heart.”
“Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another.”
“Loving oneself
Is the most primal
Of all survival mechanisms”
Source: The Whisper Of Your Soul
“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.”
“Loving or accepting others unconditionally allows us to love and accept ourselves.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Loving or not loving should be like coffee or tea; people should be allowed to decide. How else are we to get over all our dead and the women we've lost?" Cunco whispered dejectedly.
"Maybe we shouldn't."
"You think so? Not get over it. but...then? What then? What task do the departed want us to do?"
That was the question that Jean Perdu had been unable to answer for all these years.
Until now. Now he knew.
"To carry them within us—that is our task. We carry them all inside us, all our dead and shattered loves. Only they make us whole. If we begin to forget or cast aside those we've lost, then...then we are no longer present either. "
Jean looked at the Allier River, glittering in the moonlight.
"All the love, all the dead, all the people we've known. They are the rivers that feed our sea of souls. If we refuse to remember them, that sea will dry up too."
He felt an overwhelming inner thirst to seize life with both hands before time sped past even faster. He didn't want to die of thirst, he wanted to be as wide and free as the sea—full and deep. He longed for friends. He wanted to love. He wanted to feel the marks that Manon had left inside him. He still wanted to feel her coursing through him, mingling with him. Manon had changed him forever—why deny it? That was how he had become the man whom Catherine had allowed to approach her.
Jean Perdu suddenly realized that Catherine could never taken Mann's place. She took her own place. No worse, no better, simply different.
He longed to show Catherine the full expanse of his sea!”
Source: The Little Paris Bookshop
“Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.”
“Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.”
“Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.”
“Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.”
“Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.”
Source: Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
“Loving others requires a commitments. Its no wonder people find hating others is easier than loving them.”
“Loving others, she thought, is the good thing we do in our lives.”
Source: Trains and Lovers
“Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself”
“Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.”
Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
“Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!”
“Loving ourselves is about acceptance, not always liking and feeling comfortable. In the same way I love my fiancé, I love him but don't always like his behavior. I don't always like what he says. But I accept him. I accept him because of these things. It doesn't mean I don't want our relationship to grow or progress. But I don't feel the need to change him. When I accept him for him, we grow naturally, and the same for our own self-love.”
“Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.”
“Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.”