Love Maintain Quotes

#1. A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#2. God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.

Pope Pius XII

#3. Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

Salvador Minuchin

#4. But the lies she told were woven into the fabric of her being, her life; so that to live with her and love her was to become slowly enmeshed by them, to wrestle her for the truth, to struggle to maintain foothold on reality.

Robert Galbraith

#5. Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Robert Herrick

#6. I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

Judy Greer

#7. When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love.

Bell Hooks

#8. As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca The Younger

#9. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?

Faraaz Kazi

#11. I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

David Dinkins

#12. You have to work for love, you have to earn it, and you sure as hell have to maintain it.

Meghan Quinn

#13. I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.

Masha Tupitsyn

#14. It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it.

Chuck Baldwin

#15. When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.

Alison Sweeney

#17. How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

Sonia Johnson

#18. I am married and I have two kids now, and I love them all to death. So I am trying to put all that together and maintain the same pace I've been keeping. But really, I relish what we do. A year and a half sounds like a cakewalk to me.

Slash

#19. Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons

#20. To maintain peace in the world, first maintain peace inside of you. A restless mind can never generate beneficial ideas.

Mehek Bassi

#21. I think that when you're 5'4 and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.

Mindy Kaling

#22. I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

Martha Plimpton

#23. My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity, in whatever form these last may be expressed. This is the program I would maintain, were I a great artist.

Anton Chekhov

#24. Here are my politics: I love music and painting; a good book is an event for me; I'm going on forty-four. How much time do I have left? Fifteen, twenty, thirty years at most? Very well! I maintain that in thirty years ministers will be a bit shrewder, but just about as honest as they are today.

Stendhal

#25. To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

Leo Buscaglia

#26. Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

Mary Alice Monroe

#27. Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

Leo Buscaglia

#28. To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

Auliq Ice

#29. We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.

Paul O'Brien

#30. A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

Lauren Bacall

#31. Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

Helen Fisher

#32. THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#33. We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God's view of the flesh.

Watchman Nee

#34. It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Maya Angelou

#35. The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#36. You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God.

Thomas Brooks

#37. Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

Alexander Pope

#38. You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#39. O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

Amy Carmichael

#40. The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed.

Nikki Rowe

#41. To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.

Bell Hooks

#42. If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

Curtis LeMay

#43. For how long can one maintain total vigilance?

For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure?

Dorothy Dunnett

#44. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.

Christopher Dines

#45. From the time we know the Lord, and are bound to him by the cords of love and gratitude - the two chief points we should have in our view, I apprehend, are, to maintain communion with him in our own souls, and to glorify him in the sight of men.

John Newton

#46. From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.

Claudia Moscovici

#47. While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [ ... ] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.

Michelle McKinney Hammond

#48. You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

James Dobson

#49. I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Rita Mae Brown

#50. A stronger deterrent to infidelity even than love was the desire to maintain a stable household, a stress-free life.

Matthew Thomas

#51. Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

Robert Burns

#52. He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other's suffering, and we
didn't now.

R.K. Lilley

#53. To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.

Vironika Tugaleva

#54. You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

Rob Liano

#55. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#56. Stop begging God to increase your territory when you can't even maintain the territory you already have. Work with what you got first.

Nakia R. Laushaul

#57. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#58. If there's one thing I love, its people who wear their failures on their sleeve. And go on to teach the unspoken/spoken gospel of what not to do. And who still maintain that it CAN be done, and aren't going around preaching defeat to those who are still eager to try.

Njabulo P. Vilakazi

#59. People in today's world, whether Muslim or not, will not pay attention to Christians because we can explain our theology in crystal-clear terms. They will not esteem us because we give to charity or maintain a positive outlook on life. What will impress them is genuine love in our hearts.

Gracia Burnham

#60. In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

Masashi Kishimoto

#61. It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#62. Every man loves the mercies of God, but a saint loves the God of his mercies. The mercies of God, as they are the fuel of a wicked man's lusts, so they are fuel to maintain a good man's love to God; not that their love to God is grounded upon these external benefits.

John Flavel

#63. I've tried to maintain a healthy image but not necessarily a size because as women, we're all different sizes. I go for being the healthy size; whatever that is for you. It's important to embrace that and love your body for what it is. Each woman has her own body.

Marisa Miller

#64. I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

Kathy Magliato

#65. Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country,

Jiang Zemin

#66. Love is Ability, to maintain, sustain and cherish a relationship

Ahtesham

#67. There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over ... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Rebecca De Mornay

#68. You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing is not for one person to write to Christ but for many people to love and emulate [you]. Fortunately, despite everything, this still occurs today.

Pope John Paul I

#69. I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.

Daryl Wein

#70. I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Meister Eckhart

#71. The part of acting business is the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

Amber Tamblyn

#72. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.

Israelmore Ayivor

#73. Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them

Herman Van Rompuy