Love Quotes - Page 248

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force. My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay. I will greet this day with love in my heart.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

Don't worry about your future. God knows you completely, accepts you unconditionally and loves you wholeheartedly. You can trust Him.

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

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.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

Love yourself and you can heal your life.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.