Measure Love Quotes

You don't measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn't wear a watch - it's timeless. It doesn't care how long you know someone. It doesn't care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins… ~ Jeff Brown

How do you measure love? Quantify it? It's not something you can put on a scale or pour into a beaker to examine its volume and viscosity. ~ Ann Aguirre

The measure of love is love without measure. ~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

We are just a few atoms
In the vast universe, stardust,
Yet who can measure the sum
Of two lovers and what's between us ~ Eric Overby

You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath. ~ Sarah Dessen

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure. ~ Albert Schweitzer

But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at me ... No scale would be strong enough, she tells me. It would break to pieces under the weight. ~ Alice Hoffman

I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure. ~ Douglas Carter Beane

You don't measure love in the number of chances you're willing to give someone. Love doesn't run out of chances. ~ Caisey Quinn

Using science to prove religion is like using a ruler to measure love. ~ Rick Julian

So this was how it was going to be, was it? This love business, so difficult on the emotions yet so joyous to experience. I liked it and hated it in equal measure. ~ Harlem Dae

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure. ~ Marian Keyes

You can't measure love, it has no start it has no end ~ Christofer Drew

You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees. ~ Kristin Cashore

Love has value even though we can't measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can't understand it. ~ Debasish Mridha

Little,
It is a small measure
But can you measure love? ~ Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upwards, and, just when you'd thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of other people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her. ~ Kristin Cashore

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure. ~ Frida Kahlo

Why did we measure love in time? Twenty years. Thirty years. Even just a glance could last forever. Not like a marriage worn away by the attrition of constant fights and the boredom and the disappointment of daily routine. Mayflies live for a single day. Adult males become quasi-females, haunt the edges of streams. Trapped by polished surfaces. Pursued by predators. Included in amber. Burst with intention as they leap from phase to phase. How do we assess the heart-breaking complexity of that single day? ~ Maureen Medved

There's no greater gift than a love returned in equal measure. ~ Lorraine Heath

Sometimes I feel crazy being this dramatic about a love that only lasted a few months and..." She interrupted me. "Nothing crazy about it. You don't measure love like that. You measure it by its effects. It doesn't matter how long it lasted. It's how much it grows you that matters. ~ Jeff Brown

Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure. ~ Neil Gaiman

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building. ~ Paulo Coelho

Many have been taught that to have love requires having someone else love you. This just leads people to restrict the amount of love they feel based on how much others love them. You cannot measure love. It originates within us and it is infinite. ~ Joseph P. Kauffman

You can't measure love by the time put in, but by the weight of those moments. ~ Sarah Dessen

The measure of love is to love without measure. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the 'truth' with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the right way, as bringing love to the world around us and within us … that will cost us everything. For to live by that sword, as we all know, is to die by it. ~ Peter Rollins

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus. ~ Aaron Yoo

I think about you. But I don't say it anymore. ~ Marguerite Duras

I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know. ~ Jay-Z

Passover is about more than saying the right prayers and singing the right songs. It is about experiencing the love God felt for humanity and which God expressed by freeing the Jewish people from Egypt. Our obligation as human beings and people of faith is to trust in that love and, like the Israelites, let it guide us to the next step on our journey. ~ Evan Moffic

Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race. ~ Lewis Mumford

This is dedicated to a flirty Gem from a grumpy Cap. He knows who he is. ~ Anyta Sunday

My father's
absence was an unspoken void that lived within our
walls, and although I longed for the day I, too, would fall
in love, I was fearful. What if the person who would
someday hold my heart disappeared too? ~ Jennifer Murgia

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live. ~ Mary Renault

Smelling the hint of his cologne. Hearing his voice speak her name. It was like reopening a cut you thought already healed and pouring salt directly into it. ~ Nicole Douglas

Lines for Winter

Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself -
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are. ~ Mark Strand

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice," Hanalea said. "When that time comes, choose love. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish. ~ Akiane Kramarik

The thing with breaking up is they leave, but the memories stay. ~ Dominic Riccitello

Never apologize for someone you love, he says quietly. It makes you look like a prick. ~ J.P. Delaney

Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?"
"I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people. ~ Susan Wiggs

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

That's just what it means to love someone. They can hurt you worse than anyone, but they can also make you happier than another person ever could. ~ Suzanne Wright

Shift from judgment to compassion to love. ~ Thomas Leonard

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape. ~ Elise M. Boulding

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love. ~ Timothy Keller

[T}he sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. ~ Erich Fromm

To commit to loving a person for five minutes is easy. To commit to loving a person for the rest of your life, after you have met them, is a strong commitment. But when you commit to loving a person before you meet them and for the rest of your life, you have made the strongest commitment one can make to a relationship. ~ Tom Houck

My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river. ~ Bo Sanchez

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. ~ Sara Sheridan

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power. ~ Elie Wiesel

When we carry the thoughts of negativity and self-criticism, we inspire just what we don't want: poor health and an unattractive physical body. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live.
I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on. ~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late! ~ Jennifer Young

Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome. ~ Bill Nye

I admire him. He's so complete. You don't meet perfection often in this world one way or the other, do you? And he's just that. Sheer perfection in his own way. Everyone else is so unfinished, broken up into so many different pieces that don't fit together. ~ Rand

I just wondered what a thing it would be ... if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.
It would be ... heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and ...
Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning. ~ Tony Kushner

We are easily duped by those we love. ~ Moliere

People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life. ~ Margaret Cho

When you run from lies you are sprinting to truth.
When you run from ignorance you are sprinting to knowledge.
When you run from confusion you are sprinting to insight.
When you run from folly you are sprinting to wisdom.
When you run from grief you are sprinting to joy.
When you run from doubt you are sprinting to faith.
When you run from despair you are sprinting to hope.
When you run from hate you are sprinting to love.
When you run from strife you are sprinting to peace.
When you run from anger you are sprinting to patience.
When you run from despair you are sprinting to kindness.
When you run from darkness you are sprinting to freedom.
When you run from poverty you are sprinting to wealth.
When you run from lowliness you are sprinting to prominence.
When you run from dishonor you are sprinting to nobility.
When you run from obscurity you are sprinting to fame.
When you run from weakness you are sprinting to strength.
When you run from loss you are sprinting to gain.
When you run from mediocrity you are sprinting to excellence.
When you run from failure you are sprinting to success. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do!
Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true? ~ Tennessee Williams

If you were you ask ten couples how they got engaged, each of them would have a different story. If you asked ten Christians how they came to know Christ, they would have different stories as well. God treats us as individuals. He knows what makes our hearts sing. He knows our love language. Jesus orchestrates His "proposal" moment with us and knows what it takes to woo us. He desires for us to rise up and leave all other pursuers. He wants us to be His alone, knowing that one day He will return when all is ready for the wedding. He will call to us to come away and be with Him forever. Until that day, we can live with unwavering confidence, knowing that we are promise to Him. We are spoken for. ~ Robin Jones Gunn

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" ... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish. ~ Rajneesh

It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter. ~ Andy Daly

I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness. ~ Rumi

On Work and Charity
Likewise (Maria) watched (Martin's) toils and knew the measure of the midnight oil he burned. Work! She knew that he outdid her, though his work was of a different order. And she was surprised to behold that the less food he had, the harder he worked. On occasion, in a casual sort of way, when she thought hunger pinched hardest, she would send him in a loaf of new baking, awkwardly covering the act with banter to the effect that it was better than he could bake. And again, she would send one of her toddlers in to him with a great pitcher of hot soup, debating inwardly the while whether she was justified in taking it from the mouths of her own flesh and blood. Nor was Martin ungrateful, knowing as he did the lives of the poor, and that it ever in the world there was charity, this was it. ~ Jack London

Think about what you love, Hildegard. Trust it. That's where your talents lie and that's where you'll find happiness, even here. ~ Mary Sharratt

He says dumb shit on the regular that makes me laugh, gets grumpy when he's hungry, and eats all my peanut butter, but I still love the bastard. ~ Megan Erickson