Love Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 49

Love is not a matter of counting the years it''s making the years count.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

What force is more potent than love?

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Love is stronger than justice.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

We live in the world when we love it.

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ''Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

After the verb ''''To Love''''...''''To Help'''' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

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.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Love is life''s end, but never ending. Love is life''s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love''s life''s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Love is the only gold.