What It Means To Love Quotes

#1. Good. Because I don't need protecting."
"I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.

Cassandra Clare

#2. For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is to encourage the books to leave.

Lindsey Drager

#3. I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

Hayley Williams

#4. This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity.

Harriet Reuter Hapgood

#5. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland

Cassandra Clare

#6. So after he died, I didn't know how to relate to other people. I didn't know what it means to love another person.

Haruki Murakami

#7. And think it's funny how, now that I know what it means to love and be loved, I see it everywhere.

Laurelin Paige

#8. We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

Shane Claiborne

#9. Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do want to try my best though. I have to, or else I won't know where to go. Like you said before, Naoko and I have to save each other. It's the only was for us to be saved!

Haruki Murakami

#10. In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

Joan Halifax

#11. There is a moment in your 20s when you know what it means to love rightly, but not how to do it, and then you begin to learn.

Melissa Febos

#12. It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

Keke Palmer

#13. Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?

Claire Cross

#14. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Ezra Taft Benson

#15. I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Mary McDonnell

#16. Philanthropy simply means love of what it means to be human.

Valaida Fullwood

#17. If ye love me, keep my commandments. This is the essence of what it means to be a true disciple: those who receive Christ Jesus walk with him.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#18. What's important is to be myself! To dream doesn't mean putting yourself in a box. It means realizing the essence ... of what you really want to do.

Bisco Hatori

#19. I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost ... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#20. The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to do. Believe me, it works miracles. Titus in Love in Lowercase

Francesc Miralles

#21. It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'

Jens Voigt

#22. I don't think you understand what it means when a demon falls in love, Layla. It doesn't go away. It doesn't fade, even if we want to. We love until death. That's not just something we say. We love and we love once and it's forever.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. I long to see a radical shift in philanthropy that will come to characterize the 21st century. That is, a reclaiming of the root meaning of philanthropy: love of what it means to human.

Valaida Fullwood

#24. He taught me to be a Da Vinci
and I sit here, with his portraits
waiting for him to return
I do not think he will
Is that what it means to be human
to be all powerful,
to build a temple to yourself
and leave
only the walls to pray

Phil Kaye

#25. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Barbara Sher

#26. My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

Kirk Cameron

#27. I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

Elizabeth Strout

#28. Do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?

Helen Simonson

#29. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

Jay Asher

#30. And I would never, ever have that euphoric, all-consuming love that had wrapped around me every moment I was with Sydney, that feeling of love that constantly made me think, Yes, this is what it means to be alive.

Richelle Mead

#31. The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

Felicia Day

#32. So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point.

Chris Martin

#33. I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean?
It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

Jeanette Winterson

#34. Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

Katharine Hepburn

#35. Don't cry,nyonda," he murmured.
Phillipa took a deep breath. "What does that mean, anyway? Nyonda?"
His green gaze held hers. "It's Swahili. It means 'beloved.'" A small smile touched his mouth, and he brushed her cheek again. "You do know I love you, Phillipa. To an alarming degree.

Suzanne Enoch

#36. I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

John Cale

#37. It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring love. It has been said that I've lived in the desert all my life and do not know what it means to be wet.

Sophia Rose

#38. I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#39. No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#40. No matter what happens, please remember that I love you, hridaya patni. Promise me that you'll remember."
"It's a pet name our father used to call our mother. It means ... wife of my heart.

Colleen Houck

#41. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

#42. There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music.

Eric Church

#43. I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

Mickey Sumner

#44. What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Mal Peet

#45. Is it possible to love forever, she asked. Don't you know what forever means? It means now, he answered. Oh then we are in love forever.

Anushka Bhartiya

#46. We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

Surya Das

#47. Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

#48. please don't hurt me again; be the person I need you to be; show me what it means to be in love so I can decide whether that's what I feel.

Jodi Meadows

#49. I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken most of a lifetime for me to understand what that means.

Christina Baker Kline

#50. This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#51. What does love mean? It means, you're happy to see someone you love happy..

Rhein Fathia

#52. It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. 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.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#53. Do you know what the name Astrid means?" He switched gears again and I was helpless to follow.
"No."
It means 'star'. That's what I think of you as, Abbey. One day I looked up, and there you were. A fiery spot of light surrounded by darkness. You make me feel like anything is possible.

Jessica Verday

#54. This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.'" A wide smile spread across her face. "Every day he'd climb out

Charles Martin

#55. Christians are meant to be God's holy counterculture, showing the world what a society of love can look like. It is about political imagination and what it means to be the peculiar people of God. As

Shane Claiborne

#56. I love you and you understand what that phrase means to me. I don't say it ... to anyone ... ever.

S.C. Stephens

#57. You're absolved," I tell him.
He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.
So I put it in his language. "You're free.

Hannah Moskowitz

#58. What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to have awe and reverence for him. The woman who fears the Lord obeys from a heart of love for the God of the universe, who is also her heavenly Father! Her childlike fear of her heavenly Father leads her to faithful and faith-filled obedience.

Kimberly Hahn

#59. Those women hold nothing to you.
They aren't the ones I want. You are.
If I have to knock each and every one of those
fears out of your mind, I'll gladly do it
if it means you understand, without a
shadow of doubt, that when I look at
you, I fucking love what I see.

Harper Sloan

#60. He stared her right in the eyes. "Never . Nila, loving someone means you're willing to fight and die for them. That you'll be there with them no matter what life throws at you. Bring it on. Together, we'll be strong enough to face any future.

Kat Simons

#61. Listen to me. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn't matter. You're not one of them. You never were. You're not theirs. You're mine.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#62. But love is a fluid thing. It's not the same for every person. The concept is. The reality isn't. When you hear people talking, they're usually trying to validate their own perception of what love is, or what it means to be in love.

Brandon Shire

#63. When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means. There is a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard.
You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.

Anonymous

#64. I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

Scott Ritter

#65. Rima: "Hey Shiki, won't you be my husband?"

Shiki: "sure."

Rima: "How rash..."

Shiki: "Ehh? Why...? It means that you will be my friend and companion forever. What is there to ponder?

Matsuri Hino

#66. My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that's what it means to have been brought up well. Mom,

Banana Yoshimoto

#67. I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said.

"Well, I don't know what it means to be Danish and Scottish," she said. "Does it matter?"

"I think so. Because it's the number one thing people use to identify me. It's my main thing.

Rainbow Rowell

#68. It is the taste of forgetting. Of sleep and dreams with no waking. Never to long or yearn, to struggle or hurt or love or desire ever again. And I understand that this is what it truly means to lose your soul.

Libba Bray

#69. Son, make this world a better place with that beautiful mind of yours. And when you have a family of your own, love them beyond measure even when it means letting them be free to do what God intends them to do.

Jo Ann V. Glim

#70. But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.

Janet Frame

#71. I thought, this is what it's like to be torn apart for love. This is what it means to be reborn.

Sierra Simone

#72. Positive simply means unifying energies, while negative simply means separating energies. It's not about what's good or bad, right or wrong. It's about
embracing what feels good and brings us closer to peace.

Alaric Hutchinson

#73. If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it

James A. Baldwin

#74. It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Mindy Kaling

#75. To minister means to love and care for others. It means to attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Put simply, it means to do what the Savior would do if He were here.

David L. Beck

#76. Josh isn't in love with me and I'm not in love with him."
"Sell it to someone who's buying, Sunshine. Have you seen the way he looks at you?" I've seen the way he looks at me but I don't know what it means. "Like you're a seventeenth-century, hand-carved table in mint condition.

Katja Millay

#77. Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

Ravi Zacharias

#78. That's what it means to be in love, Marin. It means doing everything in your power to ensure that the one you love lives to see another day, because the world would be that much darker without them.

Aida Jacobs

#79. All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks
"AS IS." It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me "AS IS" and I'll take you that way, too.

Steve Goodier

#80. Before meeting you, I didn't know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself to be alone. That's because when you feel lonely, it means that there is someone for you to miss.

Yuuki Obata

#81. I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.

Tom DeLonge

#82. I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. "
He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. "And I need you, Merit.

Chloe Neill

#83. I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

Sara Quin

#84. It is you I have been able to love, you alone in all the world. You can have no idea of what that means. It means a spring in the desert, a blossoming tree in the wilderness.

Hermann Hesse

#85. For me 'You & I Forever' is celebrating the person you love being by your side. This is what it means to others

Jessie Ware

#86. I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

#87. Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.

Ian McEwan

#88. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.

Miguel Ruiz

#89. You never feel more aware of what it means to be alive than when you're falling in love. Or dying.

Kate Bassett

#90. I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means ... if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I'll do it. I won't be happy about it. It'll break my heart. But ... if that's what you really need, then we're done.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#91. I'm here, and she is out there, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. My love for her is extreme, unexplainable, and to try to say what she means to me in mere words would not do it justice. Maybe I'm not normal.

Danielle Rocco

#92. Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?

Patricia Highsmith

#93. I'm afraid to have a boyfriend. I don't know how to do that and not lose who I want to be. And I'm afraid of what it means to be close to a guy, a guy I might really like.
There it was: the truth.

Julia Karr

#94. We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

Jack Kornfield

#95. I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people ...

Aaron Tippin

#96. Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love ... enjoying what you love ... and being true to yourself ... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?

Bisco Hatori

#97. It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.

Edgar Cayce

#98. It's a promise ring," he said solemnly. "The lady at the store said it's what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.

Kristin Hannah

#99. If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

Teresa Of Avila

#100. Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

Jeanette Winterson