Love Lessons Quotes

The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. ~ Paulo Coelho

Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not. ~ John C. Lilly

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. ~ John Cage

Love isn't a competition. It's not about coming in first or second or last. It's not about how much they love you back or making sure that they love you the most. When you truly love someone, you care more about their happiness than your own. If your mom finds someone else that she can love and who will love her back and make her happy, then I will be glad. Love isn't about coming in first place, Gemma. Love is about putting someone else first in front of yourself. ~ Natalie Palmer

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade ~ Simone Elkeles

Love isn't always what we want, but it's always what we need. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds

Every relationship is a lesson in love. ~ Donna Goddard

Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
Love them no matter what. ~ Nikki Sixx

It was getting harder and harder to be around her without touching her, kissing her, making her his once and for all. ~ Cathryn Fox

Kill them with kindness and if that didn't work, use a shotgun ~ Heidi Cullinan

If we open our hearts to give love we are immediately transported into the joy and blessings of love. ~ Genevieve Gerard

Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience. ~ David Deida

When we share our naked bodies, our financial future, the range of our good and bad emotions, our dearest dreams, our most painful memories, our trembling fears, our fragile hopes, and our sweetest joys then a relationship cannot be anything other than a uniquely powerful opportunity. ~ Donna Goddard

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want. ~ Martha N. Beck

Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence.
Joy lies at the edge of happiness.
Faith lies at the edge of boldness.
Love lies at the edge of kindness.
God lies at the edge of righteousness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I miss home. I miss ignorance. I've seen a beauty I can't fathom in the Aquifer, and met a girl who moves my heart. ~ Jonathan Friesen

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. ~ Len Deighton

Because he listened to you. When everything in him told him to fight, he listened." Mr. Tzaddik's kind brown eyes met hers. "Loving a warrior is not easy. I pray our Lord Jesus will strengthen you for the journey ~ Ronie Kendig

Little children, love one another. ~ Richard J. Foster

Men die several times in life. The time to lose the first lover. After getting married, it is time to lose his wife in old age. ~ Sajal Ahmed

It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down. ~ Dorothy Garlock

I miss the innocence of your childish sweet smile
and your gentle, knowing touch.

I remember bright and shining, curious eyes
and the happy smiles so much.

I sometimes think of the noise you made as you playfully chased through the house those days.

I miss the things I miss when nothing else moves the pain.

I wish I did not miss you so much. I wish…the things I wish...could all be wished away. ~ Ursula Denise Walker

In his savage, untutored breast new emotions were stirring. He could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so great an interest in these people - why he had gone to such pains to save the three men. But he did not wonder why he had torn Sabor from the tender flesh of the strange girl.
Surely the men were stupid and ridiculous and cowardly. Even Manu, the monkey, was more intelligent than they. If these were creatures of his own kind he was doubtful if his past pride in blood was warranted.
But the girl, ah - that was a different matter. He did not reason here. He knew that she was created to be protected, and that he was created to protect her ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself. ~ Kelly Osbourne

It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually. ~ Rainbow Rowell

He waits.
And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side.
Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting, ~ Amy Garvey

Then and now, beautiful, I'll take you any way you come to me ... Any way. I love this Sylvie, I loved that Sylvie. I just love you, baby. ~ Kristen Ashley

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that. ~ Maria Sharapova

I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don't like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing ... A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout. ~ Anthony Trollope

And then there are those you stop counting the years with because they are here to stay.
They are here. And they aren't going anywhere.
Nothing will make them flinch.
Nothing will make them think twice.
They know you at your worst,
the worst you didn't even know you had.
They know the sound of your mood swings, the color of your anger, how you curse when you curse, how you shout when you throw a tantrum. They know when you're avoiding a subject. They know when you're lying. They know when you're jealous. They know your vices by heart and they celebrate them. They celebrate you-- vices included.
They know your lost dreams and how life fucked you over. They know the battles you lost. And they think your fabulous when you think you're just an unlucky mediocre person who once thought will make it big in life.
They know the last time you were happy. They see the unspoken sadness in your eyes. They know the words behind your silence. They know the photographs playing in your mind when you're looking afar.
They know YOU, the naked YOU, the raw YOU, not the embellished YOU people see, not the YOU that will be read in biographies or in elegies once you're dead, not the YOU that introduces you to others.
They love you from the bottom of their heart. They are your family regardless of their blood. They are your squad. They are your people.
And no matter how many times you make them open the door, they can't walk out. They just can't ~ Malak El Halabi

THIS ISN'T CHINA

Hold me close
and tell me what the world is like
I don't want to look outside
I want to depend on your eyes
and your lips
I don't want to feel anything
but your hand
on the old raw bumper
I don't want to feel anything else
If you love the dead rocks
and the huge rough pine trees
Ok I like them too
Tell me if the wind
makes a pretty sound
in the billion billion needles
I'll close my eyes and smile
Tell me if it's a good morning
or a clear morning
Tell me what the fuck kind of morning
it is
and I'll buy it
And get the dog
to stop whining and barking
This isn't China
nobody's going to eat it
It's just going to get fed and petted
Ok where were we?
Ok go if you must.
I'll create the cosmos
by myself
I'll let it all stick to me
every fucking pine needle
And I'll broadcast my affection
from this shaven dome
360 degrees
to all the dramatic vistas
to all the mists and snows
that moves across
the shining mountains
to the women bathing
in the stream
and combing their hair
on the roofs
to the voiceless ones
who have petitioned me
from their surprising silence
to the poor in the heart
(oh more and more to them)
to all the thought-forms
and leaking mental objects
that you get up here
at the end of your ghostly l ~ Leonard Cohen

The flower that smiles today
Tomorrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies;
What is this world's delight?
Lightning, that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.--

Virtue, how frail it is!--
Friendship, how rare!--
Love, how it sells poor bliss
For proud despair!
But these though they soon fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call.--

Whilst skies are blue and bright,
Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
Make glad the day;

Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou - and from thy sleep
Then wake to weep. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is. ~ Helen Fisher

In this city of love
Your memories tinkle like an anklet
My heart rhymes melodies to its tune
And affection shines like a droplet ~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

I love the way you look at me. I love the way you love me. No matter what, I will always find my way back to you, ~ Tara Sivec

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor ~ Pedro Arrupe

I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up. ~ Eden Sher

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead! ~ William Shakespeare

Weird people love well. ~ Craig Groeschel

I recognize that I have chosen wrongly, I forgive this thought, and I choose again. I choose love ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

I choose to focus my energy on what I believe deserves my time, life passes us by so quickly and before we know it; were looking back at our story, make sure the choices you decide on; will give you a movie worth watching. ~ Nikki Rowe

Life is wonderful if you are looking to wonder. ~ Debasish Mridha

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything. ~ Matt Damon

I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I'd have to stop. I'd have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return. ~ Courtney Giardina

Biology is a force to be reckoned with. An ugly child you love with all your heart and soul, you. But it's different. You're pleased with your third-floor walk-up, also, until someone invites you I've to dinner at a house with a pool in the garden. ~ Herman Koch

When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding. ~ Frederick Lenz

When you're on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last ~ Gayle Forman

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone ~ Jack Kerouac

We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists. ~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

There are no words
that could describe
how loving of beloved feels.
Nor the joy of opening
arms into a hug. ~ Tatjana Ostojic

Unrequited love and insomnia are longtime friends of mine. They might even be siblings - evil and uncaring with sticky fingers. ~ Saffron A. Kent

I understand that we are all handicapped in some way, which allows me to be able to love even the unlovely. ~ Bettyann Vakauza

Careful you'll end up in my novel."
(Love this quote--wish I could take credit for it.) ~ Cynthia Kumanchik

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. ~ Claire Tomalin

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. ~ Janis Ian

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ~ Suzanne Collins

I've decided. The next time I cry, it'll be for "someone special", and it'll definitely be "tears of happiness. ~ Mika Yamamori

If I could count the infinity of you
I'd place each second within your soul,
and lay my breath between the stars
that form your heart and whole. ~ Phen Weston