Love Is famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
-- A. J. McLean -
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
-- Aaron Stanford -
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
-- Aberjhani -
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
-- Aberjhani -
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares -
I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.
-- Adriana Lima -
When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
-- Adyashanti -
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
-- Adyashanti -
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
-- Adyashanti -
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
-- Agatha Christie -
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...
-- Agnes Repplier -
People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.
-- Ai Yazawa -
For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I don't actually think “true love†is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you
-- Aimee Carter -
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
-- Al Goldstein -
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
-- Alain Badiou -
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
-- Alain Badiou -
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
-- Alain de Botton -
True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
-- Alain de Botton -
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
-- Alain de Botton -
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.
-- Alan Ball -
The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
-- Alan Cohen -
Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.
-- Alan Cohen -
Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
-- Alan Lightman -
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
-- Alan Paton -
Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!
-- Alan Rufus -
Love is thick and it swallows me whole.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
-- Alasdair Gray -
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
-- Albert Camus -
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
-- Albert Camus -
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
-- Albert Camus -
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold.
-- Albert Claude -
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
-- Aldous Huxley -
What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you.
-- Aleatha Romig -
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.
-- Aleksis Kivi -
I love being naked. I'm a free spirit.
-- Alessandra Torresani -
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
-- Alex Flinn -
Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
-- Alex Grey -
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.
-- Alex Grey -
The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.
-- Alex Grey -
Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.
-- Alexander Lowen -
The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
-- Alexander Schmemann -
Why do I love being naked? Because I was born that way?
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
If you think you love me, then you don’t know what love is,' Gabriel said. 'Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I think love is something you figure out later on in life, and you have to make a lot of mistakes to figure out what love is, which is why we all have shitty, tumultuous relationships when we’re younger, and it’s harder to let go,
-- Alexandra Daddario -
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
-- Alfie Allen -
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
-- Alfred de Musset -
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
-- Alfred de Musset -
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
-- Alfred de Musset -
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
-- Alfred Noyes -
All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.
-- Ali Larter -
He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can....
-- Alice Cary -
And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos
-- Alice Randall -
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.
-- Alice Walker -
Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
-- Alison Croggon -
Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins..
-- Alison Croggon -
I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.
-- Alison Goodman -
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.
-- Allison Mackie -
The hardest part of living is loving 'Cause loving turns to leaving every time And the hardest part of leaving is living Life is hard when love is so unkind
-- Allison Moorer -
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
-- Allison Pearson -
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
-- Alphonse Karr -
There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo
