love quotes

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Love is the one wild card.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

We do not judge the people we love.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Smiles are the language of love.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.