Top 100 Quotes About Define Love
#1. God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
Francis Chan
#4. It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#5. A few years ago, she thought someone had finally come to love her and accepted her unconditionally, but she was wrong. You couldn't really define love with money. It was more than that.
Diyar Harraz
#6. But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.
Aidan Chambers
#7. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
#8. Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.
Sarah MacLean
#10. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
Helen Keller
#11. But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships.
Ann Patchett
#12. There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A first glance
A first smile
A first kiss
A first fall ...
Colleen Hoover
#14. The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is when we acknowledge it, words just aren't enough. So we find ourselves scratching the walls while our hair is falling out. Then we can't live without it. We become addicts.
Kevin Fuller
#15. I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.
Harold Bloom
#16. We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
Without them, we are empty.
Daisy Whitney
#17. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
Gregory David Roberts
#18. I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.
Oliver Jeffers
#19. She was truly beautiful, though that was not what drew him to want to know more about her. This woman of wealth and privilege had something else about her - and inner beauty - which he couldn't quite define.
Kathleen Y'Barbo
#20. How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.
Debasish Mridha
#21. I define myself by helping others. This is what I do.
Those people who want me to abandon my husband are asking me to put myself first and to judge him. The poor man has been judged unfairly by others. Why would I abandon him in his greatest need?
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#22. Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
Beilby Porteus
#23. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.
Gary L. Thomas
#24. I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.
Geoff Dyer
#25. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.
Miya Yamanouchi
#26. We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
David Ansen
#28. How you handle Failure, determines your success.
How you rise after a fall is going to define you.
I don't care how dedicated you are, I want to know how OBSESSED can you be.
I don't LOVE what I do, I LIVE it.
Harsh Malik
#30. I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
Cynthia Nixon
#31. I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could not live without yet could not pick out of an anatomy book.
Laura Nowlin
#32. The deepness of human love and dignity will define the tolerance of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#33. What of Art?
-It is a malady.
Love?
-An Illusion.
Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
-To define is to limit.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Love is individual to each person and I don't think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn't going to be the same for everybody.
Zooey Deschanel
#35. I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#36. I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
Spike Jonze
#37. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#38. Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.
Dermot Davis
#39. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.
Donella Meadows
#40. What is your intention as you begin dating? Are you hoping to enter into another serious relationship right away? Exclusive or Open? Companion? Friend with benefits? You define this. Don't let someone else define this for you.
Staci Bartley
#41. Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#42. Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.
El-P
#43. Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#44. It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.
Nadia Boulanger
#45. I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.
Marlon Brando
#46. You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
Randall Terry
#47. The thoughts that you think define your life that you live. So have good thoughts to have a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
Elizabeth Fishel
#50. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
#53. I don't love or hate humans. I respect them. They shape themselves, in a way that we angels do not. They tell lies and sleep around and curse, and they try to define themselves so valiantly. Who am I? they keep asking. Why am I here?
Cynthia Hand
#54. The past is a tricky thing and we let it define us when we should embrace the here and now, and all that's still coming. You need to let yourself live from a place of love, not from a place of fear over the things you can't control.
Jennifer Farwell
#56. No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.
Hayley Williams
#57. God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.
David Jeremiah
#58. I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
Philippe Petit
#59. Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
Brennan Manning
#60. I love sexy, intelligent women. Sexiness is hard to define. Of course a woman can be beautiful, but I think it's something in the eyes. It's a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that's almost animalistic.
Ellen Von Unwerth
#61. No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
Anna Neagle
#62. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.
Meg Jay
#63. I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.
Alfonso Cuaron
#64. A guy isn't the only thing that will make me happy. If I never find romance or love, that will be okay. It's what I want, but it doesn't define me.
Kim Kardashian
#65. Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.
Sebastian Pole
#66. Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?
Beyonce Knowles
#67. The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame.
Define your success as a person of values.
Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you.
Raphael Zernoff
#68. Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality.
Debasish Mridha
#69. We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
Nan Fairbrother
#70. Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.
Yukio Mishima
#71. Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
Chet Williamson
#72. Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue.
Debasish Mridha
#73. What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!
Sergei Rachmaninoff
#74. Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.
Jessie J.
#75. Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.
Aberjhani
#76. Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
Gao Xingjian
#77. No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship ... Everything has its time. And everything ends.
Elisabeth Sladen
#78. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
Eva Mendes
#79. I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I'd find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice "made" me. I made me...
Megyn Kelly
#80. Love is love just like life is life. You don't define it every time.
Shweta Suvarna
#81. Life is all about choices. Choices define us, sculpt us. What will your choices say about you?
Sheena Hutchinson
#82. To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
Gottfried Leibniz
#84. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.
Lisa Locke
#85. Love is everything. Nothing else but love can define the destiny of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Louise closed her eyes. She could not define what she was feeling but knew no other way to express it than to say that she loved him. So that's what she said. It occurred to her that you only get glimpses of love, your whole life, just bits and pieces.
Tom Drury
#88. Geography does not define you - love does.
Eve Ensler
#89. Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.
Vikrmn
#91. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.
Ellen Meister
#92. Being with Henry doesn't mean you have to give up who you are. Henry doesn't define you.
Aimee Carter
#93. I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define.
Margaret Atwood
#94. Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Love is a landscape the long mountains
define but don't
shut off from the
unseeable distance.
Denise Levertov
#96. Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.
Kevin McCollum
#97. You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.
Raphael Zernoff
#98. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].
Deena Kastor
#99. Let the trials in your life guide you not define you
Kim Cormack
