Loving A Person Quotes

#1. Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. Loving a person is wanting him/her (with variable degrees of desire down to friendship and even neighborhood); not needing him/her.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#4. When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

Kylie Tennant

#5. If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.

Rajneesh

#6. Loving a person doesn't make them who you desire; it makes you vulnerable to their reality.

Abby Fabiaschi

#7. To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

John Gray

#8. Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.

Denise Richards

#9. Sometimes, loving a person was easy, the heart went and did that all on its own. Liking a person, however, was a little more difficult. That involved the brain. And the brain was a fickle bitch.

Stylo Fantome

#10. There are different kinds of love you experience in life. Loving someone differently doesn't mean loving a person less than you love someone else. Love is love.

Nely Cab

#11. One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was instantly enamored because the definition of agape is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing.

Hannah Brencher

#12. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Nora Ephron

#13. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.

Osho

#14. I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

Tom Robbins

#15. From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things - as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.

Bill Bryson

#16. My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.

Gary Sinise

#17. I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life!

Tim McCarthy

#18. But that's a way to go on loving
a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]

Shirley Hazzard

#19. A loving family is the biggest treasure a person can ever have..

Himmilicious

#20. Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people's misery. They lie when it suits them and don't see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don't have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.

Brenna Yovanoff

#21. Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.

Monica Murphy

#22. Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

John Eldredge

#23. When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

Jason Mraz

#24. Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

Caroline Myss

#25. If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Liz Murray

#26. Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Smedley

#27. I am powerful and I am loving.
I have much to give to this world.
I am a person of worth.
I deserve love.
I am a capable person.
My life has meaning.
My life is unfolding perfectly.
There is plenty of time.

Susan Jeffers

#28. Marriage is not just about marrying the right person and loving each other...
It's also about having a man that got your back no matter what.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#29. Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

Omar Dorsey

#30. They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There's an urge to bite the deal.

Sadhguru

#31. Every one of us is trying to find our true home. Some of us are still searching. Our true home is inside, but it's also in our loved ones around us. When you're in a loving relationship, you and the other person can be a true home for each other.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#32. Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

Harold S. Kushner

#33. She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#34. I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.

Teresa Heinz

#35. I know many scientific facts about the human heart- not the least of which is that it's far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.

Lisa Kleypas

#36. Secret to a Perfect marriage- Marrying and loving the most imperfect person who loves your imperfections too with the same degree.

Shikha Kaul

#37. Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better ... noble and generous and beneficent.

Kristan Higgins

#38. Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

Dave Barry

#39. My dad is a loving person. He would never disown me. At some point we will be together again. I love my father, and he loves me.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#40. But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Audre Lorde

#41. Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Haruki Murakami

#42. My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

Boy George

#43. But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.

Rajneesh

#44. Most important are the lessons of being humble, being a giver, and generally being a loving and caring person for people. That is something that I am trying to instill in my kids and all the kids around the world.

Raheem Devaughn

#45. If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

Leo Buscaglia

#46. Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Boris Kodjoe

#47. In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.

Olivia Wilde

#48. You can love a person without loving everything about that person.

Mary Higgins Clark

#49. In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

Nikki Reed

#50. For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

Beth Ditto

#51. If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

Laozi

#52. Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

Lauryn Hill

#53. God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!

Shannon L. Alder

#54. She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned - rather slowly; I wasn't too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. You become a better person by caring and loving other creations.

Debasish Mridha

#56. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.

Jim Morrison

#57. Love is the biggest thing. I feel that if we all were truly loving to each other, I think life would be better. Even to like, a stranger. They could be going through something crazy in their day and just to show love towards that person ...

Leon Bridges

#58. The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

Gary Zukav

#59. Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.

Bell Hooks

#60. By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

John Paul DeJoria

#61. Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside.

Teresa Palmer

#62. The central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

Miroslav Volf

#63. Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#64. My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.

Moshe Kasher

#65. He would be a better person, he knows. He would be a more loving person.

Hanya Yanagihara

#66. Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.

Deepak Chopra

#67. Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving.

Donna Lynn Hope

#68. God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

Graham Cooke

#69. A person should never be sorry for loving someone. Only for not loving someone.

Roxanne Snopek

#70. Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!

Soren Kierkegaard

#71. Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

John Ortberg

#72. Anyone can love a loving person but
give your love to someone who doesn't deserve it

Debasish Mridha

#73. I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov

#74. Actually the choice is simple. When your child decides to love a new person, you can either see it as a chance to hate some people - the person they choose and their families. However, you can also see it as a chance to love some more people. And since when did loving more become a bad thing?

Chetan Bhagat

#75. Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesnt mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.

Kezia Dugdale

#76. We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

Amy Dickinson

#77. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention ... . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#78. If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.

Karl Marx

#79. If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Nhat Hanh

#80. If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

#81. A person is never good or bad per se, which means that loving or hating them necessarily has at its basis a subjective, and perhaps illusionistic, element.

Alain De Botton

#82. God loves us before any human person can show love to us. He loves us with a "first" love, an unlimited, unconditional love, wants us to be his beloved children, and tells us to become as loving as himself.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#83. Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.

Ellen J. Barrier

#84. The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#85. Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Thomas Carlyle

#86. I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

#87. If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.

Erich Fromm

#88. It's said that only gypsies have the true gift of looking at a person and seeing their future, so I was happy as a red hen when she said a man named Doyle would be loving me for the whole of my life and then some.

Bette Lee Crosby

#89. One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes.

Lucia Berlin

#90. The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

Michelle Shocked

#91. I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

Lauryn Hill

#92. Shame is the feeling you get when you believe that you're not worthy of anyone caring about you or loving you. That you're such a bad person that you can't even blame other people for not caring about you.

Brene Brown

#93. Loving another person is taking a giant leap of faith. It's being vulnerable at the most basic level. It's like taking your heart out of your chest and chucking it off a cliff, hoping that someone is waiting at the bottom with open arms to catch it.

J. Sterling

#94. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Haruki Murakami

#95. I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

R. Kelly

#96. I believe that appreciation is a holy thing
that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

Fred Rogers

#97. the danger in loving is in giving someone the ability to destroy you. Because you cannot truly love without giving up some of yourself, and it is a leap of faith to hope that the person you give it to cares enough for it that you keep yourself all in one piece.

Colleen Vanderlinden

#98. This gift of 'loving' the other person is a reflection of the spiritual 'love' given by the Father and shown through His Son Jesus Christ.

George Calleja

#99. I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

Bill Burr

#100. Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.

J.E.B. Spredemann