Top 100 Love Foundation Quotes
#1. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Jane Austen
#2. The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste Comte
#3. I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time
Rafe Esquith
#4. I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth."
"The earth sometimes shifts.
Kenneth Oppel
#5. Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower ... beautiful in essence.
Tony Samara
#6. Your inner strength is your outer foundation
Allan Rufus
#7. When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe - As The Soul Speaks
AainaA-Ridtz
#8. The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#9. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.
Bette Davis
#10. The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.
Cesare Beccaria
#11. There is no fear in love. Live with the foundation of LOVE in your heart and you will become FEARLESS.
Molly Friedenfeld
#12. Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity
Tony Samara
#13. Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.
Deepak Chopra
#14. The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#15. Love is the foundation, the mechanism and the conductor of life.
Daniel Marques
#16. If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
B. Margoliouth
#18. I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.
Tracy Millosovich
#19. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.
David Levithan
#20. [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.
Columbus Short
#21. Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.
Yann Martel
#22. The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.
Bryant McGill
#23. Do not abandon love. Love is the foundation of strength. What we build on and hold to. Find
Elizabeth Hunter
#25. Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love - to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.
Sharon Salzberg
#26. Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
Solange Knowles
#27. Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty
Bell Hooks
#28. A relationship has to be nourished with passion, and built upon the foundation of trust, to be one that last a lifetime.
Ellen J. Barrier
#29. The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important the loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.
Joseph Curiale
#30. I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.
Ian Somerhalder
#31. She ran a streak of foundation under each eye, highlighter down the bridge of her nose, and bronzer beneath each cheekbone - a layer of armor before battle. Because that's what these parties were to her, a war on all the heartbreaking boys in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jessica Taylor
#32. We stood as the ground shifted
and we saw the view from below
through tiled floors
and concrete stairs,
our feet burning holes in the foundation
while you whispered of dreams.
Marie Anzalone
#33. 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
#34. Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. I love what Jacksonville taught me and where it led me. The good, the bad and the indifferent all helped shape me. I may not live there anymore but it lives inside me. It is and will always be my foundation.
Carlos Wallace
#36. Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
Rumi
#37. -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect.
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone!
Charlotte Bronte
#38. I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.
Gary Busey
#39. Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I conclude that since men love at their own will and fear at the will of the prince, a wise prince must build a foundation on what is his own, and not on what belongs to others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#40. Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.
Madelaine Standing
#41. Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
Bell Hooks
#42. If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.
Pope Benedict XVI
#43. The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.
Donna Goddard
#44. When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.
Elizabeth George
#45. Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always
all you did for me."
-I did nothing for you."
-You loved me and your love made me
human.
Isaac Asimov
#46. My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need.
Tim Tebow
#47. As believers in Christ, we are part of Him-God the Father decided before the foundation of the world that anyone who loved Christ would be loved and accepted by Him.
Joyce Meyer
#48. Love is a solid foundation upon which to build your new life together.
T.A. Chase
#49. The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
#50. What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.
Julianna Margulies
#51. Gestures and actions, were the foundation of any great love. And that's what he was to her. He'd shown her that she didn't have to change for any man, that the right man would love her for who she was.
Lauren Blakely
#52. Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.
Constance Marie
#53. The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to
that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options
Stephenie Meyer
#54. Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
Darren Johnson
#55. Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
Nirmala Srivastava
#56. It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world.
John Calvin
#57. A man in love is cautious with the decisions he makes, words he says and actions he takes, so he never purposefully causes her pain. He believes in her when she struggles believing in herself. He is her foundation, where she feels safe to be her true self.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#58. Love ... is friendship. A deep, lasting foundation that you both decided to set on fire.
Nessie Q.
#59. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#60. Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
Brian Tracy
#61. Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
Erin Morgenstern
#62. In our hearts there burns a fire ...
That burns all veils to their root and foundation
When those veils have been burned away
Then the heart will understand completely.
Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms
In the heart of the Spirit,
In the core of the heart.
Rumi
#63. Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them. If that were so they would all be well.
Bell Hooks
#64. Mine.
The word was a declaration. It rocked him to his very foundation. It was a truth he'd kept hidden for far too long. Caleb didn't know anything about love, or loving anyone, but he knew ... Livvie was his.
C.J. Roberts
#65. After. But it is a singular love, because it is a love whose foundation is not physical attraction, or pleasure, or intellect, but fear. You have never known fear until you have a child, and maybe that is what tricks us into thinking that it is more magnificent,
Hanya Yanagihara
#66. The underlying foundation of the Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was exhibited on the Cross of Calvary; a love that is not earned and can never be.
Oswald Chambers
#67. Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart.
Sharon Salzberg
#68. One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
James E. Faust
#70. All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
Bell Hooks
#71. Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. - MAHATMA GANDHI
Pema Chodron
#72. If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ... Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Thomas Jefferson
#73. Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.
Pope Benedict XVI
#74. Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.
Craig Groeschel
#75. There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
Charles Stanley
#76. Make genuine love the foundation life is here to enjoy in the most positive ways,not to copy others but to be an original of you.
Marcelle Hinkson
#77. All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#78. A solid foundation for us makes a great partner for someone else.-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#80. May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time
Richard L. Ratliff
#81. The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Benjamin Franklin
#82. Love is my foundation
Wisdom is my capital
Struggle is my manner
Truth is my redeemer
Sorrow is my companion
Love is my foundation
Anonymous
#83. Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love.
J.K. Rowling
#84. Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life ... The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love ... Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.
Pope Francis
#85. I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation
on which alone my happiness rests.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.
Bell Hooks
#87. Love, Work, Friendships and Life have to contain a foundation of commitment
Kalon Jackson
#88. I think the foundation at Berkshire [Buffett's stake in Berkshirewill pass to the Buffett Foundation upon his death] will be a plus because there will be a continuation of the culture. We'd still take in fine businesses run by people who love them.
Charlie Munger
#89. Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
Kristin Hannah
#90. Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance.
Bell Hooks
#91. That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
Charlotte Bronte
#92. Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same--the image of God.
John Of Kronstadt
#93. Loving God more than anyone or anything else is the very foundation of being a disciple. If you want to live your Christian life to its fullest, then love Jesus more than anyone or anything else.
Greg Laurie
#94. Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is.
Angelo M. Swinson
#95. If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.
William Shakespeare
#96. The foundation of a marriage is love. The walls of a shared life are built with trust, loyalty, and respect. Once those are torn down, there's nothing left standing.
Adriana Locke
#97. 4 For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love 5 He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.
Anonymous
#98. If pure, eternal, unconditional Love is the foundation on which you stand, even if all else falls away, you are still valuable because you are loved.
Amy Lichtenhan
#99. The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#100. Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.
Dan B. Allender
