Love Generously Quotes

I like to fill my heart with love so that I can give it away generously without emptying my vessel. ~ Debasish Mridha

Suppress hate; love generously. Work passionately, live honorably, and love genuinely. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Anyone can fall in love, but only those who love generously can feel the pain through love as 'purifying fire' ... ~ Emma Brynstein

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

My God, I marvel that I am still so full of myself after having so often received Communion! O dear Jesus, be the child inside of us, so that we feel within and breathe forth nothing but you. Alas, you are so often within me; why am I so rarely in you? You enter into me; why am I so often outside of you? You are in my very self; why am I not in yours, to find there the great love of yours that transports our hearts? ~ Francis De Sales

The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok. ~ Drew Chadwick

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. ~ Anita Brookner

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Some people you don't give up on. Not because you can tell what they'll be or what will happen. Not because of that. It's because something inside you insists that you shouldn't
something knows more or knows better, stubbornly holds its ground, even while the the rest of the world and a million statistics and your own rational brain buzzes around you, chanting that you're a fool. And maybe they're right. Maybe you ARE a fool. But what if you're not? Can you give up without knowing if that voice was right all along? Where's the peace in that? ~ Jennifer DeLucy

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along. ~ Tobsha Learner

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan. ~ Marion Jones

I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues. ~ Max Winkler

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. ~ Robert Fripp

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers. ~ Nina Garcia

Your presence is a gift to others only if you are wrapped in love. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him. ~ Matthew Henry

I don't like love as a command, as a search. It must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door. ~ Charles Bukowski

Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second? ~ Lauren Myracle

I want to be a ripple in the infinite ocean of love. ~ Debasish Mridha

All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He'd prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species. ~ Nicole Krauss

The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn't love, but gratitude. ~ Kelly Moran

I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking. ~ Sami Gayle

C. albus ... I think the very loveliest of all the lily family,- a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed. ~ John Muir

I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises. ~ Bill Engvall

Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean's clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you. ~ Dominic Riccitello

A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ~ Joan Lunden

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening. ~ Martin Scorsese

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. ~ Nikola Tesla

See, the thing about the falling in love montage," she said, her voice hoarse, "is that when it's over, the characters have fallen in love. ~ Ciara Smyth

Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart's desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that's it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you've ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart. ~ Jonathan Hull

I cannot love two people at once," Becky told William.
"No. You can't," he said.
"Well, then. That's all right, then. Of course one can't, I mean to say, I wasn't sure you hadn't mistaken any aspect of our friendship for something else." Her heart stood still and it raced, all at once.
"Because you don't love him," William said. ~ Nancy Clark

I wonder whether my love would be divided up more between him and Mama if I'd had him for longer, but I don't think so. I think we stretch out forever in our hearts. ~ Sarah Rubin

I'm sorry for calling you so early, but this couldn't wait. I can't go to dinner with you on Wednesday."
"I can't see you at all actually."
"I'm ... pretty sure I'm in love with Travis. ~ Jamie McGuire

When they asked you to leave your mark in this world, they did not mean scars on people. ~ Nitya Prakash

You cannot break me. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The truest of loves transcends even the greatest of insecurities. ~ Solange Nicole

first condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage. ~ Henrik Ibsen

I have to tell you what's at stake here: when we were young, we were both in relationships that we thought would never end, not like I will love you even when it goes dark, more like It's so dark out there. How could you survive without me? People have taken so much from me that I don't know how I'm not gone. ~ Neil Hilborn

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being. ~ Harlan Ellison

The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it. ~ Steve Goodier

I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality. ~ Wendy Hoffman

Mislaid flame of tender emotions
Rekindled.
Together we live to the point of tears,
I wouldn't want it any other way. ~ Scott Hastie

I love your round head,
the brilliant green,
the watching blue,
these letters,
this world, you.
I am very, very hungry. ~ Kate DiCamillo

Go for what you want. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely. ~ Joyce Meyer

Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Are you bothered because he says he could see us together? Or is there something else?"

Sam's voice had grown quieter with that last question. Devin looked up from the board to see something he'd never thought he'd see from Sam. An expression that, on anyone else, would've been more than curious. It was open, vulnerable. A naked longing that disappeared as soon as Devin was sure he knew what it was, to be replaced by Sam pressing his lips together and looking down at the board again.

Wow. Okay. That made this conversation a hell of a lot more interesting. Maybe Sam had spent so much time analyzing Devin because he wanted to know if he had a chance. Devin wasn't sure how he felt about that.

"I'm not in love with the idea that you guys have talked about me," Devin said. "It's strange."

"I'm sorry our conversation made you feel that way," Sam said. "I honestly wouldn't have said anything if you didn't want to know."

"I know, I asked for it," Devin responded. "About...us." Dev looked up in time to see Sam's expression change before the mask slid back into place. "You don't think it's weird?"

Sam's lips trembled as he fought down a smile. "I think," he began, reaching across the table, "life is full of possibilities." He touched the back of Devin's hand with the tips of his fingers, gently stroking the skin. "If this isn't one you want to take advantage of, then you shouldn't feel pressured to do so."

It ~ Sara Winters

Your voice is yours, how dare you let another speak for you.
Your heart is yours, how dare you give it away, so freely to another you hardly know.
Your soul is yours, how dare you ignore its instinctual truth.
Your mind is yours, don't let the world make it negative.
You are the master of your fate, you are the creator of your destiny, don't hand the keys to anyone, rather open the door and welcome them to taste your paradise within. ~ Nikki Rowe

[Love] feels . . ." I paused, turning the highlighter in my hand, "like an awakening of senses you never knew you had, and once they're awakened, you're never the same. The way you see the world is altered. Instead of riding down a road on your bike and thinking how the wind feels good on your face, you think, 'This is how it feels when he kisses my cheek.' You play a piece on the piano, and instead of imagining a crowd applauding, you only see him, sitting in the chair next to the piano, smiling at you. You catch the scent of sage in the air and think, 'This is how he smells.' But it's also kind of like being on a mousetrap ride. Exhilarating and terrifying all at the same time. You smile and laugh and feel a thrill inside of you, all the while wondering in the back of your mind if the car will come off the track at the next turn, or if your harness will come open and you will be tossed to the ground to your death. ~ Sarah Beard

[My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.' ~ Bret Michaels

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette