Top 100 Quotes About Love Means
#1. A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.
Bell Hooks
#3. I could love means I could die violently, or live violently; the threat of the arrow is everywhere at once, not just in the heart.
Karen Green
#4. I've learned that to love means giving everything, body and soul, and expecting nothing in return. The beautiful thing is that if you're loved in return, it will all come back to you ten-fold.
Kim Holden
#5. Bible tells us we have been forgiven much, so we must love much. Love means forgiveness, and forgiveness means you have to be open to letting God work in your heart and in your mind,
Michelle Lynn Brown
#6. I wanted to teach my daughter the same things I had to unlearn after years spent as a corporate lawyer: that soul is more important than money, that love means more than material things. (James Griffioen)
Heather B. Armstrong
#7. Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath to tear a
hundred veils. Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes
of inner vision and not to take this
world so seriously
Rumi
#8. True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.
Rosalind Miles
#9. Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.
Adrienne Von Speyr
#10. Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.
James Frey
#11. To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.
Anwar Sadat
#12. Pure love' means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers; it is 'Pure Love'. 'Pure love' is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#13. Love Means Not Ever Having To Say You're Sorry.
Erich Segal
#14. I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.
David Levithan
#15. Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy
Patricia Briggs
#16. Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
Susan Sontag
#17. Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
Rajneesh
#18. Love means giving yourself to the person you love,being willing to sacrifice everything,even your pride
Elaine Barbieri
#19. Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.
James Marsden
#20. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. You know what love means? It means loving the person you are now and not the person you want someone to be or the person they will be.
Samantha Stroh Bailey
#22. It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.
Kristin Hannah
#24. Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
Melissa Marr
#25. Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.
Rajneesh
#26. Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
Hanif Kureishi
#27. If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.
Rajneesh
#28. Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Nhat Hanh
#29. You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.
Gary L. Francione
#30. To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#31. I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else's subconscious.
Julie James
#32. Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?
Elizabeth Bibesco
#33. That's why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#34. Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.
Chip Ingram
#35. Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.
Georg Ebers
#36. That is your greatest mistake. The love you felt for him wasn't love at all - it was obsession. Real love means sacrifice, not selfishness.
Morgan Rhodes
#37. I think love means a warm feeling about a human or a condition, where you feel emotional, and you feel like you want to be around them or it. You want to take care of it or them, the person, and be with them.
Fisher Stevens
#38. Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Anne Campbell
#39. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. Love means nothing if you can't accept someone for their core values.
Katie Chapman
#41. How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it thar does.
Amelie Fisher
#42. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#43. True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#44. But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another's sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.
Christopher Buehlman
#45. Love means always looking together in the same direction.
Linda Deir
#46. To see the divine in others, we have to love. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. This oneness comes from our conscious acceptance of his reality as it is.
Sri Chinmoy
#47. You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.
Judy Blume
#48. To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most.
Kou Yoneda
#50. Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.
Renita J. Weems
#51. One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.
Margaret Kennedy
#53. Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time.
Charline Ratcliff
#54. Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person ...
Ken Keyes Jr.
#56. Have you ever been in love? It's a question you're asked a lot as a kid from your friends, adults, anyone. They're curious. How do you know you're in love? Do we even really know what love means? It's just a word to define a feeling.
Shey Stahl
#57. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.
Sri Chinmoy
#58. Love means that we remain committed to loving even at the times when the emotion is so diminished or altogether missing that we can't feel it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. Love means sometimes sacrificing the things you want in order to make somebody else happy. It means being there for them, even when maybe you don't feel like it, because they need you.
Leila Sales
#60. Nothing lasts forever. That is the only truth we are guaranteed in life. When someone says they will love you forever, what does that really mean? Then again, what really is love? I think that's why we're here. For each of us to discover what love means to us.
Jewel E. Ann
#61. It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.
Mellody Hobson
#62. True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be.
Wayne Dyer
#63. Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. I think, maybe, this is what true love means.
Maybe true love is warming someone up from the cold, or tenderly brushing a hair away, because you care about them with every bone in your body even though you know what's between you won't last.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#65. I've never subscribed to that 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' bullshit. In fact, love means you always get the chance to say you're sorry. When we love someone, we always want to forgive them.
Pamela Ribon
#66. Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
Milan Kundera
#67. Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#68. Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
Therese Of Lisieux
#69. Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#70. Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.
Edeet Ravel
#71. To fall in love means to fall into something ... And that something is responsibility.
Fulton J. Sheen
#72. To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
Irvin D. Yalom
#73. Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.
Anna Kournikova
#74. You shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,
love means eventual pain
victory means eventual defeat
grace means eventual slovenliness,
there's no way
out ... you see, you
understand?
Charles Bukowski
#75. My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
Gene Perret
#76. When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.
James Patterson
#77. Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.
Melissa De La Cruz
#78. Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.
Sunjeev Sahota
#79. Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love)
Lauren Kate
#80. If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Estelle Getty
#81. Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.
George H. Morris
#82. Love means knowing when to hold someone hostage." Grinning,
Bijou Hunter
#83. I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow ... it is the honest state before the apple.
D.H. Lawrence
#84. Love means sharing the world with someone else.
Paulo Coelho
#86. Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, "Stand for righteousness and I'll stand behind you"?
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#87. As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith Piaf
#88. 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
Macklemore
#89. Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.
Seanan McGuire
#90. Love means you see someone." ... "Their touch stay on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your min.
Cassandra Clare
#91. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
G.K. Chesterton
#92. I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.
John Cale
#93. God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.
Robert Jeffress
#94. Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
E.J. Eisman
#95. But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?
Cassandra Clare
#96. The day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.
Parke Godwin
#97. True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.
Michel Templet
#98. That's not the only thing love means. You just got your mind in the gutter.
Bryn Greenwood
#99. Love means to learn to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things for you are only one thing among many.
Czeslaw Milosz
#100. If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
Quentin Crisp
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