Love Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 34

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

What''s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don''t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you''re capable of better.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

Nature loves a burst of energy.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn''t mean that God doesn''t love heterosexuals. It''s just that they need more supervision.

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

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person''s decision to die.

Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

We can''t begin to understand what God has planned for us, But we face each day with a smile, and in his name we trust For in this vast world.....is Love If only we could see the dove It seems sometimes he doesn''t care When things get rough and hard to bear But with our Faith we can survive Because in our hearts HE is Alive!!

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

If you love life, don''t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Today''s family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.