love quotes

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

My wife and I love each other very much.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.