Of Loving Quotes

#1. I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Randy Travis

#2. The worst thing in life is not losing the one you love, it's losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#3. Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?"

Frederick Lenz

#4. A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

Victor Hugo

#5. We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.

Nhat Hanh

#6. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

#7. The blood of Jesus Christ is as blessed and divine a payment for the transgressions of blaspheming Peter as for the shortcomings of loving John; our iniquity is gone, all gone at once, and all gone for ever. Blessed completeness! What a sweet theme to dwell upon as one gives himself to sleep.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

Michael Josephson

#9. Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#10. When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

Wayne Coyne

#11. I do look away now. I don't think I'm capable of loving anyone that much.

Bree Despain

#12. Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.

Morihei Ueshiba

#13. If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

Sakyong Mipham

#14. I do not fear being hurt, nor am I ever sorry should such pain take hold of me. My real fear would be to never know the the joy of loving someone so deeply as to be that vulnerable ...

Tonny K. Brown

#15. The idea of loving someone no matter what they do is overrated, not to mention largely impossible.

Meghan Daum

#16. Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Fred Rogers

#17. Something mystical can happen in the course of acting together that transcends words and ideologies
people who do not agree on ideas can create common ground in the act of loving.

Shane Claiborne

#18. Maybe that is the price of loving someone: you lose your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our heart, rendering it a new heart, capable of loving Him, who loved His own to the end (cf. John 13:1). And this love is manifested in his mercy. Jesus always forgives us.

Pope Francis

#20. You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Miriam Adeney

#21. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. You may play at love-making till you lose the power of loving truly, or forfeit for evermore the right of entrance into love's most holy place. Finally, you may find it impossible to convince another that for once you are in dead earnest, and that the time of love has come to you at length.

F.B. Meyer

#23. Fear is your brains way of protecting you,
overcoming fear is the souls way of loving you

Steven Aitchison

#24. To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

T. S. Eliot

#25. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?

Haruki Murakami

#26. Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

Denise Chavez

#27. I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

Jenny Eclair

#28. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. The worst day of loving someone is the day that you lose them.

L.J.Smith

#30. I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

Pablo Neruda

#31. It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

Oscar Pistorius

#32. It took a man capable of an immeasurable amount of understanding to strip away the insecurities I'd felt after learning what I was. It took a man capable of loving me until the end of the world to make me accept myself.
And I would move heaven and hell to keep him.
Always.

Keary Taylor

#33. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#34. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

Kate DiCamillo

#35. It's a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

Leonard Cohen

#36. The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

Susan Waggoner

#37. Aika often says that she is the only one capable of loving me the same way I am is the one capable of loving her, and no one will be able to stand my twisted personality other than her and for me to betray her is unthinkable and impossible

Cullen Thomas

#38. Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.

Lewis H. Lapham

#39. Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Not until we are faced with a crisis or sadness do we begin to remember that if we only laughed a bit more, loved a lot more, and felt the simplicity of loving ourselves-just a little more ... this day would be the greatest day ever!

Lee Pryke

#41. But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.

Thomas Merton

#42. The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

Radhanath Swami

#43. The thing she valued high above the rest, was his strength of character. Stephen Nicolson had the courage of his convictions: he would never let his lover bend his will, and Dorothy liked that; there was a danger, she thought, in the sort of loving that made people act against type.

Kate Morton

#44. Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

Erich Fromm

#45. I know his pain, the horrible crushing sadness of loving something gentle only to see it ripped apart by the hard world.

Pierce Brown

#46. The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Rajneesh

#47. What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#48. The secret of loving is living loved.

Max Lucado

#49. How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her

Ernest Hemingway,

#50. Don't be ashamed of loving someone. You should know that someone who must be ashamed; actually that who does not know how to love someone even though know loved by someone

Anton Chekhov

#51. If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

Gautama Buddha

#52. There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

Rumi

#53. Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

James Russell Lowell

#54. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. JANE AUSTEN

Melanie Shankle

#55. Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Georges Rouault

#56. The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today. Each one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude, and if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness of all living beings.

Radhanath Swami

#57. People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

Patti Davis

#58. I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.

Anthony Trollope

#59. She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

Pat Conroy

#60. The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

Therese Of Lisieux

#61. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.

Jane Austen

#62. But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

Winifred Holtby

#63. The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#64. I've always loved you. I never stopped loving you. I'm incapable of it. I'm incapable of loving anyone but you.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#65. Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.

Carew Papritz

#66. But now it all floods back - the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her

Alex Flinn

#67. And that was glorious too, the idea of loving someone and not fearing they would soon be lost.

Cassandra Clare

#68. Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever ... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

#69. I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

John Green

#70. I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

Shauna Niequist

#71. Ladies, part of loving your mate is accepting him exactly as he is!

Pamela Cummins

#72. You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another,

Neil Hilborn

#73. I will never make the mistake of loving you ever again."
"So you choose him?"
That's all this ever was. Jealousy. Rivalry. All so shadow could defeat the flame.

Victoria Aveyard

#74. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Bell Hooks

#75. I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.

Steve Maraboli

#76. I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

Chuck Palahniuk

#77. Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
like God loves them

Bill Hybels

#78. Part of loving someone is wanting them to be happy, even if it hurts you.

Leah Raeder

#79. If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

Shannon McKenna

#80. I was afraid... I am afraid of loving you, knowing that someday you will go and leave me here.

Danielle L. Jensen

#81. 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

#82. The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#83. I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#84. I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?

Haruki Murakami

#85. All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e. by hating every other ideal.

Swami Vivekananda

#86. It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.

Patrick Ness

#87. Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

Francis Quarles

#88. If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.

Jane Austen

#89. But sometimes he was afraid that having one son was too much to bear. He wondered if the pain of loving diluted, the more you had? A child's growing was a constant pushing away.

Rachel Joyce

#90. I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

Willard Scott

#91. The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

#92. The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.

Rick Stein

#93. The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Bob Marley

#94. The American male is a quivering mass of insecurities. If a woman makes the mistake of loving him, he will make her suffer terribly for her utter lack of taste.

Pat Conroy

#95. So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Deb Caletti

#96. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

James Baldwin

#97. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents and all. But my father and I have the sort of loving relationship in which, whenever he says more than one sentence in a a row to me, I want to stab myself in the heart with a a recently formed silver knife.

Leila Sales

#98. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Virginia Satir

#99. In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates ... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

#100. To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking with children, and we also need to ensure that loving action is never tainted with abuse.

Bell Hooks