So, I turned 28 years old today(May 2!!!)! What a blessing, right?! And in honor of my twenty-eight years I decided to list twenty-eight of my favorite love quotes! I haven’t accomplished much in my twenty-eight years. Never had a “real” job; I work at a store where I worked for over seven years but it’s still somewhat of an accomplishment to have a job that long even if it’s not a “real” job. I love working there, love serving people. I did graduate college some years ago but did not have the best grades. I don’t have a lot of friends but have a couple good ones and lots of great online friends! I don’t have my own house or anything but that’s ok!
My perspective on and attitude about these things used to depress me each year when I would turn a new age. But I have tapped into some deep wisdom and now I don’t let it get to me so much.
My point is even if we haven’t really been successful in ways that society believes we should be by a certain age or that we ourselves think we should be, we’re still blessed and each year we get to turn another age, no matter how old, is a true gift!
I have been feeling very alive, so full of life, love, and gratitude. I feel as if the world is just flowing through me. I feel this way quite often but sometimes I lose touch with it. But, I always find it again.
So, here are the 28 beautiful quotes I love so much!!
1.) “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” ~Voltaire
2.) “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.” ~ Peter Ustinov
3.) “Love is the poetry of the senses.” ~ Honore De Balzac
4.) “Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” ~ Madame De Stael
5.) “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” ~ Pablo Picasso
6.) “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr
7.) “Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
8.) “Love is all it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.” ~ Erica Jong
9.) “I ne’re was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet; Her face is bloomed like a sweet flower And stole my heart away complete.” ~ John Clare (English poet)
10) “But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever.” ~ Robert Burns
11.) “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
12.) “I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; — and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.” ~
William Hazlitt
13.) “How did the party go in Portman Square?
I cannot tell you; Juliet was not there.
And how did Lady Gaster’s party go?
Juliet was next me and I do not know.” ~Hilaire Belloc
(I love this! It’s so cute and funny! Lol I think Juliet is this person’s whole world that when she’s not there that person can’t concentrate but when she is there still, she consumes his whole awareness/attention.)
14.) ” When you are in an upsetting situation, try loving everyone involved and pray for them, hard as they may be. Loving doesn’t mean sentimentality but rather a rational esteem for them as persons.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
(if you don’t pray you can still wish them the best)
15.) “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.” ~
William Shakespeare
16.) “You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
George Augustus Moore
17.) “You never lose by loving,you lose by holding back.” ~ Barbara Deangelis
18.) “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” ~Charles M. Schulz
19.) “You’ll put on weight, take it off, cry at advertisements for bathroom accessories, drink too much, let pot-plants die, shout at relatives…and forget to pay the rent. But remember that people who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor, neat brandy, the moon, and drizzle.” ~ Wendy Harmer
20.) “It is best to love wisely, no doubt. But to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
21.) “‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
22.) “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
23.) “All love is sweet given or returned. Common as light is love and its familiar voice wearies not ever.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
24.) “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
25.) “All, everything that I understand, I understand because of love.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
26.) What love we’ve given, we shall have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
27.) “The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” ~ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
28.) “Love unlocks doors and windows that weren’t even there before.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Love doesn’t hurt; love heals!
I believe that “love” is a feeling/emotion/affection for someone or something but it can also be a verb. An action. Whenever we reach out to help, heal, console, make the world or someone’s life better in some way, we reach out in love.
Metta.
Xoxo Kim
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