Love Quotes - 6
More Love Quotes - 6
When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside, blindly I imagined I could keep you under glass, now I understand to hold you I must open my hands, and watch you rise.
mariah carey— Butterfly>, 1997. Written from the perspective of Carey’s ex-husband, Tommy Mottola.
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
dorothy day— On Pilgrimage (1948, pg. 126).
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870).
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
bertrand russell— What I Believe (1925)
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
john of the cross— John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas, Note to Stanza, 28 part 1
But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
— W. Somerset Maugham, [w:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage]] Ch. 70
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Somerset Maugham— Of Human Bondage, Ch. 71 (1965)
When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love
— Lucy Powell, The Heart Yearns But Once (2004).
Love makes you do the wacky.
— "Willow Rosenberg" (played by Alyson Hannigan), from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2, Episode 2, "Some Assembly Required".
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
— Rumi, Hush Don't Say Anything to God : Passionate Poems of Rumi (1999) as translated by Shahram Shiva
But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
Nicholas Sparks— The Wedding (2003)
God seeks comrades and claims love. The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
rabindranath tagore— Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (1928)
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Corinne (1807), Book VIII, Chapter II.
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller— Edmund Waller, Divine Poems, Divine Love, Canto III, line 17.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
helen keller
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up.
james baldwin
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.
virginia satir
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is a sweet flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
stevie wonder
Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living, and above all those who live without love.
J. K. Rowling— Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness.
pablo neruda— From his book, 100 Love Sonnets (2007, pg. 165).
As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change... I will always keep falling in love with you.
Karen Clodfelde— As quoted in Fifty Years of Living, Laughing and Loving: The Beginning, by Amanda M. Davis (2014, pg. 284).
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty.
zig ziglar— American author, salesman, and motivational speaker; founder of the Zig Ziglar Corporation
