Top 100 Quotes About Those We Love
#1. The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave Flaubert
#3. To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die.
Hazel Gaynor
#4. Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Peter Singer
#5. Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan
V.C. Andrews
#6. Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.
J.K. Rowling
#7. Sometimes people let us down. Even those we love and trust the most. When it comes down to it, humans are pretty weak creatures.
Paul Pilkington
#8. Those we love are the only ones worth crying over.
Allie Brennan
#9. People don't die, we pass into memory. I'll live through you, through your heart and your mind. That's the wonderful thing about life. Our bodies die, but memory allows us to live in those we love.
R.K. Ryals
#10. Made me more aware of how we should always guard our tongues and never walk away from those we love in anger. Life lesson learned.
Lora Ann
#11. We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them - giving of our time; always being present in their lives; serving them; being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family and to all men - as the Savior taught.
Claudio R.M. Costa
#12. How do I tell Sophie that sometimes it's not strangers that prey on us; it's those we love who can do the most harm?
Jodi Picoult
#13. As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
Nhat Hanh
#14. Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.
Mary Alice Monroe
#15. Funny how the stupid shit we do for those we love hardens into legend.
Taylor Adams
#16. Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
Bill Crawford
#17. [ ... ]love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it, is there?
Kobo Abe
#18. There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Henry Fielding
#19. How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth.
Mark Helprin
#20. It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
Norm MacDonald
#21. We only deliberately waste time with those we love
it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.
Sheila Cassidy
#22. Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron
#23. Home was where the heart was, where we bled, where we laughed, met those we love, where we built, and what we fought for. Home was the dry soil we kept nurturing unconditionally, the place we took care of ...
Cameron Jace
#24. Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life.
Irvin D. Yalom
#25. If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.
Alyson Richman
#26. Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world
Cassandra Clare
#27. The whole deal about loving truly and for real and with all you've got has everything to do with letting those we love see what made us.
Cheryl Strayed
#28. We aren't guaranteed the time we think we
need to mend fences with those we love.
Eileen Wilks
#29. I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.
Rosa Nouchette Carey
#30. We are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.
Andre Norton
#31. Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
Lloyd Alexander
#32. The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
Elizabeth Holmes
#33. We are never very far from those we hate. For this very reason, we shall never be truly close to those we love.
Albert Sanchez Pinol
#34. We all had to say goodbye, sooner or later, to those we love
or they had to say goodbye to us. Those were the only two possibilities that this world allowed. But no matter how much we tried to face up to it, it never became easier.
Alexander McCall Smith
#35. We are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.
Heloise D'Argenteuil
#36. He said ... he said he wants you to know that those we love are never really gone." Michael closes his eyes. "We may not get to see them like we used to, and we may not even remember what they sound like, but they will always be with us.
T.J. Klune
#37. But the truth is, real love denies self to give those we love God's best. So I said no to Collin and yes to God, and I truly believe that's why our marriage is so wonderful today. Because the Bible is clear - God honors those who honor him.
Julie Lessman
#38. We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.
Max Jacob
#39. And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#40. We are all more interested in ourselves than in any one else in this world, until love comes; then we soon learn to a love man more than life, and when a child comes we learn another love, so clear, so high, so purifying, that we become of no moment at all, and live only for those we love." "You
Gene Stratton-Porter
#41. Those we love know us the best. They know all the right places to strike.
Ilona Andrews
#42. Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.
Gustave Flaubert
#43. Easy," Trent said when I stiffened, and he lifted my chin, reading the strain I'd lived with for the last few hours, the fear. "Why is it harder when those we love are in danger than when it's just us?" he whispered, and I blinked fast. I wasn't going to cry, damn it. I wasn't!
Kim Harrison
#44. Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life ... life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.
Gena Showalter
#45. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
Sharon Salzberg
#46. There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#47. The best times we've had on earth are usually with those we love.
Van Harden
#48. I watch Jace Herondale play, and I see the ghosts that rise up in the music. Don't you?" "Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world." "Yes," she said. I just wish he were here to see this with us, just here with us one more time.
Cassandra Clare
#49. In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.
Frederick Lenz
#50. It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere
#51. I have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#53. The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#54. When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.
Victor Hugo
#55. But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Gustave Flaubert
#56. It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
Moliere
#57. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham
#58. Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#59. We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.
Anatole France
#60. The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.
Nelson Mandela
#61. By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.
Anton Chekhov
#62. How ironic it is that our instincts often run exactly opposite from what we truly desire for those we love.
R.A. Salvatore
#63. For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
#64. Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
Liane Moriarty
#65. When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
Sharon Salzberg
#66. We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#68. As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.
Amy Eldon
#69. God created you with special talents for a purpose, and sometimes those we love most don't understand that. Don't let the doubts of others ring louder than God's whispers to your spirit. Sometimes God's whispers are harder to hear, but they're to be trusted the most.
Tricia Goyer
#70. What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#71. The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love.
Michael John LaChiusa
#72. By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
William Hazlitt
#73. The most real presence of all is the abscence of those we love.
Gina B. Nahai
#74. A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#75. It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.
Leo Tolstoy
#76. And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#77. How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
Sonia Johnson
#78. There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love
Michael Xavier
#79. If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
Earl Nightingale
#80. While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.
William J Doherty
#82. I think now, looking back, that we all die, little by little, as each of those we love departs before us.
Brian Ruckley
#83. With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.
Nhat Hanh
#84. We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
#85. She said we can't save everyone, but we can damned sure as hell fight to save those we love ... She taught me that we can only do our best. You've done your best ... not beat yourself up because you missed something or someone. It makes you weak.
Lora Leigh
#86. We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#88. We watched each other's eyes. We were as strangers, in that moment - as intimate as strangers - for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.
M T Anderson
#89. There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
#90. Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.
Martha Stewart
#91. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
#92. We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses ... If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
Desmond Tutu
#93. We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
Ruth Rendell
#94. Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man.
Janet Morris
#95. Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
Emily Dickinson
#96. Loss should teach us to cherish those we love, to never do anything that will result in regret, and to cheer on tomorrow with all of its promises of greatness.
Samantha Young
#97. For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
there to know what we have done for those we love.
Frank Pittman
#98. The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
Cheryl Strayed
#99. When there are wars within us, it will not be long before we are at war with others, even those we love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#100. Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
Oliver Goldsmith
