Love Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 36

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you''re loved, needed, and accepted.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong

A friend drops their plans when you''re in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you''re in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don''t follow it, they still respect and love you.

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, ''Dust to dust,'' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, ''I''ll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

Love is not something that you can put chains on and throw into a lake. That''s called Houdini. Love is liking someone a lot.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

Do you love me because I''m beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me.

The verb ''to love'' in Persian is ''to have a friend.'' ''I love you'' translated literally is ''I have you as a friend,'' and ''I don''t like you'' simply means ''I don''t have you as a friend.

Never judge someone by who he''s in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I''d just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.