love quotes

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

A true man hates no one.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Love is only one of many passions.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Love is trembling happiness.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?