Our Love Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

  Paul Tillich

  Forgiveness, Acceptance, Overcoming

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our love is principle, and has its root
  In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

  William Cowper

  Life, Love Is, Roots

  William Cowper (1830). “Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]”, p.247

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• At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Life, Evening

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• Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
  This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

  Ben Harper

  Relationship, Distance, Believe

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

  Toni Braxton

  Love, Stars, Confused

  Song: How Could an Angel Break My Heart, Album: Secrets, 1996

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• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Buddhist, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.

  Ruth Pitter

  Love, Fall, Autumn

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.2

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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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• Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

  Michio Kushi

  Love, Prayer, Recovery

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• Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

  Richard Holloway

  Heart, Meditation, Humanity

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• A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".

  Anthony de Mello

  Couple, Love You, Together

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.99, Image

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• He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Jesus, Needs

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.93, ICS Publications

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• We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

  Edward James Olmos

  Country, Children, Future

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• Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Valentines Day, Hatred, Needs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Spiritual, Maturity

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• When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

  Woody Allen

  Honesty, Weight Loss, Humanity

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what we invent in this world of illusion. We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don't have the eyes to see...Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. When we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous and our love is completely unconditional.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love, Heart, Eye

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