Gift Of Love Quotes - Page 2

• This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Reality, Intellectual

  13 Copy quote
• 

  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

  214 Copy quote

  Show source

• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

  110 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

  102 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

  Dale Evans

  Love, Marriage, Christmas

  84 Copy quote

• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Family, Happy

  36 Copy quote
• 

  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

  246 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Pro Life, Abortion

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.94, Image

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Relationship, Wisdom

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds 81 - 90”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Age

  81 Copy quote

• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Christmas

  31 Copy quote

• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

  38 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  157 Copy quote

• Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Recovery, Self

  Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Discipline

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

  19 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

  143 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Loving You is Easy Cause You're Beautiful" Hers was a gift of love, a miracle of life, For all the world to see and hear forever.

  Minnie Riperton

  Life, Beautiful, Loving You

  14 Copy quote

• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

  178 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices; Who wondrous things hath done, In whom this world rejoices. Who, from our mother's arms, Hath led us on our way, With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.

  Martin Rinkart

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Mother

  'Nun danket alle Gott' (c.1636); translated by Catherine Winkworth q.v. in her 'Lyrica Germanica' (1858)

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Money, Heart

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.27

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Jobs, School, Light

  4 Copy quote