Quotes about love

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”

I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. [...] But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Maybe not, she said as we came to the car. But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

Personalities don’t love—they want something.

When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.

I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine; if he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that house-trough as her whole affection be monopolized by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me; how can she love in him what he has not?

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.”