Our Love Quotes - Page 8

• love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Love Is, Veins, Darling

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

  Albert Camus

  Waiting, Doubt, Stubborn

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• Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Graduation, Great Love

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.34, Random House

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• So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up, and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share, and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can’t quit and we can’t go back.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Giving, Quitting

  "The First Great Commandment". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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• Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Epic

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Together, Village

  "The Castle". Book by Franz Kafka, 1926.

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• Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Envy, Enemy, Overcoming

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• Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Religious, Love Life, Ambition

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• Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flirting, Pigs, Trying

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Goes On, Impossible

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.86, SPCK

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• To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Expectations, Short Love

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• We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Memories

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.316, Algonquin Books

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• The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Speaks Out, Support

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.27, Penguin

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• But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I’m in it for the long haul, I’m not going away.

  Pete Wentz

  Morning, Sacrifice, Long

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

  Pablo Neruda

  Wall, Flower, Night

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses: Love Poems”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Heart

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Our love is our burden.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love Is, Burden

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• I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Uniforms, Calm, Morbid

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Too Late, Letters

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• There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

  David Levithan

  Body, Reason, Should

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Love Is, Dust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Reality, Like Love

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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