Top 100 Love Takes Quotes
#1. Love takes just a moment, it is the ego that takes days, months and years.
Himanshu Chhabra
#2. When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.
Philip Gulley
#3. I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
Zooey Deschanel
#4. Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.
E.D. Baker
#5. Oh, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence.
Love takes the meaning in love's conference. I mean that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it.
William Shakespeare
#6. Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.
Pat Schneider
#8. True Love takes us up, while falling in love takes us down! Oh, how He loves us! EL
Evinda Lepins
#9. Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.
Noah Weinberg
#10. Life is slow and subtle. Love takes time to show and grow. In life, little acts count. In fact, that is what a life is all about, a long parade of moments deceptively inconsequential.
John F. Kavanaugh
#11. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
Al Franken
#12. Hate is ... it's too easy," he says. His face calm, calmer than it has any right to be, his eyes not wavering from mine, like he's so completely sure of what he's saying. "Love. Love takes courage.
Hannah Harrington
#13. You can't fall in love that fast. Not real love. Real love takes time, like a fine wine. Real love takes years. Not days. Not weeks.
Kitty Thomas
#14. Forever is not a word ... rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.
Stephanie
#19. I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes.
Albert Borris
#20. I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.
Kevin Leman
#21. Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage.
Amy Andrews
#22. Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.
James Patterson
#25. Some say it should come easy if it's real love but that's just not true. Love is never easy - love hurts sometimes. It causes insecurities and jealousies. Relationships take work - love takes work. And happiness requires forgiving others. I forgive you.
A.D. Justice
#26. The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
M. Scott Peck
#27. No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn't feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It's only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal.
Anthony Liccione
#29. Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.
Vanessa L. Williams
#30. Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.
T. Berry Brazelton
#31. Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self to our beloved until the day we die. Love makes us more beautiful and distorts us. Love takes our impulse to lie to an extreme.
Yang Gui-ja
#33. But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
Mitch Albom
#34. Left unstewarded, anger, resentment, fear, frustration - any form non-Love takes - can grow into all sorts of warfare, internal and external.
Kelly Corbet
#35. For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?
John Wesley
#37. True love takes time. It's an earned comfort that tells you she'll be right there beside you no matter what you do, not necessarily happy with your every action, but faithful to you just the same.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#39. Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
Lewis Mumford
#40. You need to understand that love isn't all romance and flowers and great sex, Violet." I raised my eyebrows, but she didn't stop. "Real love takes work and effort and time. Real love is willing to wait while you sort your shit out, and is still there once you get your head on straight.
Brooke Moss
#41. Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything ... away.
Dave Matthes
#42. When the power of love takes over the love of power that's when things will change
Jimi Hendrix
#44. Love takes no prisoners, it knows no mercy; it will suffocate you with its truth.
S.L. Naeole
#45. Love does take. Loving someone takes strength. Love takes hard work. And sometimes ... Love takes sacrifice. I remember thinking, feeling the only thing worse than being with Drew was being without him.
Cambria Hebert
#46. When a wave of love takes over a human being ... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#47. Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.
Marvin J. Ashton
#48. True love takes its toll
On souls
Who are not used to feeling whole
Kate Tempest
#49. Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up.
Lauren Dane
#50. If two people are meant for one another, that doesn't mean that they have to rush and be together right away. Real love takes time to grow, just like how it takes time to grow from children to adults.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#51. I'm in love with mary jane. she's my main thing. she makes me feel alright. she makes my heart sing. and when I'm feeling low, she comes as no suprise. turns me on with her love, takes me to paradiiiiise do you love me mary jane, yeah now do you think you love me mary jane don't you play no game ...
Rick James
#52. When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray
Cassandra Clare
#54. Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.
Deepak Chopra
#55. Love takes something that's difficult and makes it feel so effortless.
Debbie Macomber
#56. Love is not about want.
Love is not about good.
Love doesn't let you walk away clean.
Love is messy.
Love takes a fucking piece of you before it's done.
If it is ever even possible to be done.
R.K. Lilley
#57. Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a fucking piece of you before it's done.
R.K. Lilley
#58. Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
#60. The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#62. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel with his finger on his lips.
The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.
Victor Hugo
#63. You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving.
Edith Stein
#64. I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.
Joey Comeau
#65. Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.
Paulo Coelho
#66. I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
Robbie Robertson
#67. It takes a while to really love yourself.
Ledisi
#68. It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.
Jim Harrison
#69. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.
Kyle Richardson
#70. It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally.
Michelle Madow
#71. A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
Harvey Fierstein
#72. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
#73. The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.
Joan Thomas
#74. Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.
Todd Stocker
#75. In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#76. Everyone says that getting over somebody 'just takes time' and that one day it will stop hurting and the door will open for you to move on. We are also told that love is eternal; something extraordinary that will stay with you forever... The contradiction is immense.
Natasha Preston
#77. I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
David Duchovny
#78. It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance
Takina Cupp
#79. You could love me or hate me
I swear it won't make me or break me.
I'm goin where ever the money takes me.
Lil' Wayne
#80. One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
David Ignatow
#81. "I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.
Wiz Khalifa
#82. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?
Martha Brockenbrough
#83. Americans ... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.
Joseph Conrad
#85. Yet I still, he said, believe in love. Love restores almost everything, and where it can't restore, it takes away the pain.
Rachel Cusk
#86. I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
Lupita Nyong'o
#87. And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
Aberjhani
#88. Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.
Russell Brand
#89. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.
Sharon Salzberg
#90. To finally meet Alayna's eyes. Though I'm torn and uncertain, there is one truth that does not waver - I am in love with Alayna Withers. I will do anything for her. She is my light, and I will fight like hell to keep her from my darkness. Whatever that takes.
Laurelin Paige
#91. Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.
Bob Goff
#92. I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.
T.C. Boyle
#93. I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.
Mark Webber
#94. I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass ... disrespect him and you've got a problem.
Whitney Houston
#95. I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!
Joy Bryant
#96. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.
Brandon M. Herbert
#98. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
Rajneesh
#99. God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.
Edward T. Welch
#100. I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.
Kellan Lutz
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