Top 100 Quotes About Genuine Love
#1. I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.
Cristela Alonzo
#2. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.
M. Scott Peck
#3. I'm alive and capable of love, and love is a fucking river. It's never ending and it flows through us, all around us, keeps us alive and decadent, fierce from struggle and genuine in our vulnerability. I
Daniel Jose Older
#4. Love,affection, attention and validation - These things cannot be controlled or coerced from another. They are given willingly to a genuine person who can meet the needs of the other.
Anonymous
#5. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
#6. It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#7. There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
Charles Stanley
#8. I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.
Seth Adam Smith
#9. I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
Dante Hall
#10. Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
Gwendoline Christie
#11. There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.
George Orwell
#12. We had a genuine love for each other, and we loved being around each other, and in the gang was where I felt love. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison
Drexel Deal
#13. Sometimes the love of a friend is the purest kind. Unless you're rich and very generous, the love of a friend is usually unconditional and more genuine than anything else in the world.
Santino Hassell
#14. Because I believe that love is an overwhelming, all-consuming force, and when its genuine you can't really ignore it. No matter how long it takes. It knocks down your door by force. It keeps you awake at night. It plagues your thoughts and burns your soul.
Jessica Thompson
#15. You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. You look like a dirty stone amongst the sheen, but your value far exceeds the silky dull shine of a pearl.
Criss Copp
#16. Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I assure you I did. Deep down in your heart you don't believe in your suffering, there is a stirring of mockery, and yet you suffer - in the most genuine, honest-to-goodness way.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted.
Leslie Ludy
#18. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
Brennan Manning
#19. Cat love is genuine, because it's 10 percent devotion and 90 percent frustration and betrayal. - 67 REASONS WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN DOGS
Jack Shepard
#20. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.
John Welwood
#21. Throw in something extra. Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a genuine smile, people love to get more than they thought they were getting. And don't think that a gesture has to be large to be effective.
Susan Ward
#23. Words can come too easily
Actions can be falsely perceived by hope
Oh! To have a good reason to trust-
that would be the sweetest of joys.
That is of course- the sweetest-
next to genuine true love.
Cheri Bauer
#24. What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
Meher Baba
#25. We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
Josh McDowell
#26. I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell
#27. Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.
Michael O'Brien
#28. I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman ...
Sara Coleridge
#29. 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'
Russell Crowe
#30. Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
Hal Sparks
#31. Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.
Rod Stryker
#32. Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
Billy Graham
#33. Genuine love is between two people who know they are already complete. Genuine love is based on a new paradigm in which both partners are committed to the celebration of each other and their loved ones.
Gay Hendricks
#34. You're the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. Duarte
#35. I'm so not interested in gossip. It just gives me the creeps. I love the work; I love what I do. If somebody sends me an interview that has any connotation of something that's not interesting or genuine, I'm not interested. I really detach myself from it.
Francisco Costa
#36. Funny how the love be fake ... but I ain't stressin'.
Thankful for the love that's genuine ... appreciate the blessin'.
Busta Rhymes
#37. A genuine scientist would love the subject for itself; I think I love science for the stories that are told about it.
Philip Pullman
#38. People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
Richard Rohr
#39. Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.
Shannon L. Alder
#40. Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
Violet Trefusis
#41. Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.
Christopher Durang
#42. I fall in love with this life all over again. It's only when I try to live it myself that I have trouble. It never feels genuine.
Veronica Roth
#43. Not to pursue our joy in ministry is not to pursue the profit of our people ... Begrudging service does not qualify as genuine love.
John Piper
#44. When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in the garden even though no one required us, there is authentic generosity, genuine sympathy, true love.
Samael Aun Weor
#45. I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
Ozzy Osbourne
#46. I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
Candice Accola
#47. There are friends one makes at a youthful age in whom one simply rejoices, for whom one possesses a love and loyalty mysteriously lacking in the friendships made in after-years, no matter how genuine.
William Styron
#48. There is but one genuine love potion - consideration ...
Menander
#49. Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it.
David Levithan
#50. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe
#51. You never realised you appreciate a person until the day they're were gone, permanently
Diyar Harraz
#52. Zeal for the glory of King Jesus was the seal and mark of all genuine Christians. Because of their dependence upon Christ's love they dared much, and because of their love to Christ they did much, and it is the same now.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#53. As I write this I feel that draining hollowing helplessness that genuine love for another person produces in you. It's at these moments that we know we are going to die.
William Boyd
#54. Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less.
Donna Lynn Hope
#55. My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.
Jake Busey
#56. Who loved without any genuine feeling, with superfluous phrases, affectedly, hysterically, with an expression that suggested that it was not love nor passion, but something more significant; ...
Anton Chekhov
#57. Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
M. Scott Peck
#58. To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary.
Robert Reich
#59. Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#60. Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.
Johnny Vegas
#61. When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.
J. Vernon McGee
#62. My service to humanity
Is my real opportunity
To prove my genuine love
For God and God alone.
Sri Chinmoy
#63. A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
Tom Stoppard
#64. I want to be- without a doubt, and most definitely, an eternal love story. One that is always passionate, healthy, genuine, and happy.
Cheri Bauer
#65. In fact, there is no such thing as grudging obedience. For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.
Jerry Bridges
#66. It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#67. Respecting the opinions and beliefs of another, even if they differ from yours, is a genuine sign of love.
Charles F. Glassman
#68. Make genuine love the foundation life is here to enjoy in the most positive ways,not to copy others but to be an original of you.
Marcelle Hinkson
#69. When you care for people, it shows your genuine love for them.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. People love to say, 'I love that person even though ... ' But let's be honest. Genuine love is never followed with the words 'even though.
Dan Pearce
#71. Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#72. When genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest.
Peter Scazzero
#73. There is no love without respect.
There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty.
Alexandra Elle
#74. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.
John Welwood
#75. At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#76. I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.
Tammy-Louise Wilkins
#77. My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?
Shania Twain
#78. 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
#79. I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
Randall Kennedy
#80. I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
Bill McCartney
#81. I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.
Elizabeth Hand
#82. A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.
James E. Faust
#83. The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold
#84. You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?
Jerzy Pilch
#85. Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
R.C. Sproul
#86. 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
#87. Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
Dalai Lama
#88. I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks - but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!
Helen Simonson
#89. The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.
Bhante Y. Wimala
#90. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
Yukio Mishima
#91. The power of genuine Christian love will Transform the world.
Tedd Galloway
#92. Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy ...
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#93. I believe the vital ingredient is love - a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.
Larry Dossey
#94. It really helps if you are doing something you love instead of something you are just spending a bunch of money on. You can become very discouraged if you're not involved in something genuine, something that you believe in, and are committed to.
Jerry Baldwin
#95. You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.
Kiera Cass
#96. For it is only an appreciation of his love that can motivate genuine obedience.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#97. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?
Dean Koontz
#98. Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.
Sydney J. Harris
#99. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
#100. A vision of God high and lifted up reveals to me my sin and increases my love for him. Grief and love lead to genuine repentance, and I begin to be conformed to the image of the One I behold.
Jen Wilkin
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