The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.

Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers

Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points

Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

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