Top 67 Love Consists Quotes
#1. The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one's own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.
Ayn Rand
#2. In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
In reason, and is judicious
John Milton
#3. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
#4. I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#6. Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish
Rainer Maria Rilke
#7. Love consists of recognition, fellowship, and understanding
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own
Emanuel Swedenborg
#9. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#10. Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.
Plato
#11. Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#12. Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.
Pope John Paul II
#13. Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler
#14. The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.
Arnaud Desjardins
#15. Red roses symbolizes love. Thorns will hurt you and red roses consists of thorns.
Monika Ramzy
#16. Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.
David James Duncan
#17. People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
John Jay Chapman
#18. I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Robert Frank
#19. True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
Teresa Of Avila
#20. I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.
Douglas Wilson
#21. I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises: and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#23. Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#24. Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..
Martin Buber
#25. Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
Soren Kierkegaard
#27. The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
Peter De Vries
#29. Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#30. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
#31. I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.
John Forsythe
#33. Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life
St. Jerome
#34. Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
Martin Heidegger
#35. The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
Albert Camus
#36. Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.
David Bedrick
#37. Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
Marsilio Ficino
#38. Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
Randy Wayne White
#39. Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
Albert Schweitzer
#40. How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that ...
Mike Jeffries
#41. If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live
Leo Tolstoy
#42. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
Isaac Newton
#43. Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
Ashley Montagu
#44. My family consists of everyone I love dearly and not just the people who are related to me.
Steven Aitchison
#45. Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
Thomas Merton
#46. We have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
#48. There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
Michel Faber
#49. Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.
Marjane Satrapi
#50. A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
#51. Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.
John Lachs
#52. How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
Marcel Proust
#53. Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
S. N. Goenka
#54. The intellectual love of a thing consists in understanding its perfections.
Baruch Spinoza
#55. Everyone gets erased -- life consists of meeting people whom first you love and then you erase -- but you can't erase children, you can't erase parents.
Alejandro Zambra
#56. Let us realize, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be. Our
Teresa Of Avila
#57. It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.
Teresa Of Avila
#58. It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
Shams Tabrizi
#59. Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#60. The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.
David Hume
#61. Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.
Son House
#62. Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
Dalai Lama
#63. Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.
The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.
Jean Cocteau
#64. The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#65. The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
Leo Tolstoy
#66. Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
Thomas Lickona
#67. The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.
P. J. O'Rourke
