How Love Works Quotes

#1. How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#2. Because that's how love works. It doesn't die, even when you don't feed it. That's just the way it is. I wouldn't change it, even if I could. Loving her has become a part of who I am.

R.K. Lilley

#3. Love versus love. King, you're comparing infinities. There is no 'more.' That's not how love works. If it's love, it's infinite. You can't count it.

Tiffany Reisz

#4. Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don't decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.

Marni Jackson

#5. If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.
That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.

Rob Bell

#6. And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.

Patrick Ness

#7. I think that's how love works. Sometimes it means doing the washing up when it's not your mess, and sometimes it's driving to the airport three times in one week to pick up a loved one, and sometimes it's all unexpected bears and possible surprise giraffes.

Jenny Lawson

#8. If anyone's delusional about how love works, what real love feels like, it's the majority of the adult population.

J.A. Redmerski

#9. There is no reason why anyone should understand how it works ... and of course no reason why anyone should care ... unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

Stephen Fry

#10. Is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything.

Charles Bukowski

#11. I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Tori Amos

#12. That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#14. I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.

Rita Ora

#15. I miss, but I do hit the board, and all eight cans tumble to the ground as a result.
"I win," I tell him. "The goal was to knock down the cans, right? I knocked down all eight with one bullet. Can't beat that."
"I'm afraid that's not how it works, love.

Rysa Walker

#16. We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." And "he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Philip Yancey

#17. People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works

Joshilyn Jackson

#18. Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Stephen King

#19. That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

P.C. Cast

#20. I mean, you can throw any two people together, it doesn't mean they'll fall in love. Everyone knows this. No one quite understands how it works. It's just those people, where they are in their lives, how circumstance throws them together.

Maureen Johnson

#21. You say love's so important, but how can you prove it?
Love is like soap, it works if you use it.

Dominic Smith

#22. Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#23. As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.

Kamal Ravikant

#24. It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

Alison Mosshart

#25. I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#26. I don't know how it works, but God, in His love, is able to take our messes and make them clean.

Gary Chapman

#27. Your beliefs about your worth, deservingness and ability decides the amount of happiness, success and love in your life.

Maddy Malhotra

#28. This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This, too, how the love works and then doesn't: a mutual spectacle of imagination.

Chang-rae Lee

#29. We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

Cheri Huber

#30. I didn't realize how many actresses have tons of extensions. Their hair is still pretty, but it blew my mind to find that out. I admire the girls who switch it up a lot like Rihanna. But I also love Gisele Bundchen because she found a style that works and never changes it.

Shay Mitchell

#31. That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types
love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.

Banana Yoshimoto

#33. I don't know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained.

Annie F. Downs

#34. He has one hand over her mound and works his fingers as if he was playing guitar, making beautiful music with her tiny button. He serenades her with a love song that only his fingers know how to pick- a tune that no man can duplicate.

Jane Emery

#35. Because a place can do many things against you, and if it's your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That's how it works.

Cristina Henriquez

#36. Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.

Kate Bolick

#37. No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.

San Juan De La Cruz

#38. That's how life works. You know it when you know it.
They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.
They're on a sixteen-line highway.
Driving west.

James Frey

#39. I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Harold Bloom

#40. Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

Fanny Brice

#41. Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

Teresa Of Avila

#42. I'm beginning to think that love for me is a bit like Quantum Mechanics, something I know to exist, but have no idea how it works.

R.E. Wentz

#43. Your intuition and your intellect should be working together ... making love. That's how it works best.

Madeleine L'Engle

#44. The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Bill Gates

#45. Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

Joy Williams

#46. A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received.

Molly Friedenfeld

#47. It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

#48. Experiencing something of the grace of God should always cause our self-perceived ideas about 'Who He is' and 'How He works' to pop.

Tristan Sherwin

#49. If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask; To be clear, do you know how reading works?

Unknown

#50. This is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood.

Regina Spektor

#51. Life works in mysterious ways, Ember, and the secret is to not think too hard on the why or how of it, and to not mourn what is no longer, but live: live hard and love hard.

L.A. Fiore

#52. I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.

Carrie Ryan

#53. How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Timothy Keller

#54. I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.

Lori Foster

#55. The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works

Sunday Adelaja

#56. There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#57. That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

#58. I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works. The

Bryan Stevenson

#59. I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#60. Think how Jesus works what the Father wills. In the wounds of the dying Saviour see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be also connected with the Eternal, ever-blessed God, for It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#61. I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage ... funny how life works out like that.

Rachel Roy

#62. And you don't even need to say anything. I'm screwed up. I don't know how any of this works anymore than you do. But I do believe you're worth every second it would take to figure it out, Mason said, a smile taking over his features.

Holly Hood

#63. I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#64. You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk