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“Even today God may continue to call people to Himself, so that others may discover the mercy and the forgiveness of God, so that others may know that they have a Father who is in heaven. Without our testimony, the Gospel could not continue to manifest that God loves man. In fact, this is our message, the message of which we are heralds: God loves man.”
Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso (born 1964) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Archbishop Dal Toso: "Without testimony, the Gospel would be mute" (12 February 2019) Fides News Agency
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
Helen Oyeyemi (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew it with a certainty as warm and clear as the September sunshine. The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. By a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to provide for ourselves. That's what good mothers do.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prévert wrote the part of Garance for Arletty, France's biggest star before Bardot. Garance and Arletty are the same and one woman, the epitome of the Parisian, according to Prévert: strong, independent, witty, impudent, mysterious, the kind who casts spells, whose laugh ricochets, the kind who loves life and whom life loves.”
Agnès Poirier (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone loves the accolades, everyone loves people saying “oh you’re the best player” but what happens when that stops? Where are you going to get your motivation from? You have to have your own motivation to be able to keep you at the top.”
Lucy Bronze (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.”
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh! say not woman's heart is bought With vain and empty treasure. * * * * * Deep in her heart the passion glows; She loves and loves forever.”
Isaac Pocock (1782–1835) first seen 1817 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song", in The Heir of Veroni (1817)
“I sing of little loves that glow Like tapers shining through the rain. Of little loves that break themselves Like moths against the window-pane.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prelude", st. 2. The Poor King's Daughter, and Other Poems (1925), p. 16
“You must have confidence in yourself, and for me my spiritual grounding was very important, knowing that God loves me as much as he loves anybody else and that He’ll fight battles I can’t. I’m not in a room to fight. I just believe in myself, and I believe in Him. Some of the groups I was a part of at MIT never had a woman or an African American before.”
Carol Espy-Wilson (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She loves to sing. She loves to do ballet, sobrang bibo talaga (really so bouncy). And she can sing like whenever I practice my songs, she can pick up the songs. Ang cute!”
Anne Curtis (born 1985) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2022/05/27/2183883/after-2-year-hiatus-anne-curtis-now-ready-her-comeback
“She loves dressing up and doing cheers, so that's really all I've gotten, what you've seen. It's cute. It's so cute. She loves to dance and sing and perform and all the things.”
Gabrielle Union (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) said by 1800 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah! what is love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king; And sweeter too, For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown; Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain?”
Robert Greene (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He [God] lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Abdullah ibn Mughaffal said, "A man said to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, "Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I love you." He said, "Be careful of what you say." He said, "By Allah, I love you," three times. He said, "If you love me, then prepare yourself for poverty. Poverty comes swifter to the one who loves me than a flood to its destination.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”
Rudy Giuliani (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can’t win. Love is Russian roulette for me. No one loves the real me inside. they're all in love with my fame, my stardom. I fall in love far too quickly and end up getting hurt all the time. I've got scars all over. But I can't help myself because basically I'm a softie I have this hard, macho shell — which I project on stage but there's a much softer side. too, which melts like butter.”
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rock On Freddie" (1985).
“Every love to which there clings but the smallest speck of obligation is an unselfish love, and, so far as this speck reaches, a possessedness. He who believes that he owes the object of his love anything loves romantically or religiously.”
Max Stirner (1806–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cambridge 1995, p. 260
“We often confuse unconditional love with unconditional approval. God loves us without conditions but does not approve of every human behavior. God doesn’t approve of betrayal, violence, hatred, suspicion, and all other expressions of evil, because they all contradict the love God wants to instill in the human heart. Evil is the absence of God’s love.”
Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bread For the Journey (1996)
“poetry is my passion. It is my art. It is my love, it is my first love beyond all loves, beyond romantic love. It's as necessary for me as breathing is necessary for me. I can't live without it.”
Marilyn Chin (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't you know what kind of love I love? I love as the sea loves the shore: softly and furiously!”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When girls and boys in their secondary narcissism look in order to see beauty and to fall in love, there is already evidence that doubt has crept in about their mother's continued love and care. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”
Donald Winnicott (1896–1971) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playing and Reality (1971), ch. 9, p. 113, distinguishing primary and secondary narcissism
“The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one, least of all the mob, because the mob, the multitude, are like women: they betray those who love them.”
Pitigrilli (1893–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went into marriage for love. I didn’t go into marriage for anything else but love. I’m a hopeless romantic. I just wanted to be with one person. I come from love. I come from a family that loves. I didn’t come from a survival type of family.”
Karlie Redd (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at 4th Annual Power Up Premiere Gala, Los Angeles, California (7 November 2004).
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–' 'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief) 'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone, And none was left to love in all the world.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Sci-fi legend "Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN : Living (2 August 2010), p. 1
“I love our old Chuang-tzu because I love his pantheism, because he got a living by making straw shoes. I love the Dutchman Spinoza because I love his pantheism, because he got a living by grinding lenses. I love the Indian Kabir because I love his pantheism, because he got a living by knotting fishing-nets.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Guo Moruo, in his 1919 poem entitled Three Pantheists (San ge Fanshenlun Zhe) [original in Chinese]. As quoted in Liu Jianmei (1967), Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature
“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit offers our world love that dispels uncertainty; love that overcomes the fear of betrayal; love that carries eternity within; the true love that draws us into a unity that abides!”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reason lies not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in love, it's all we got. Love has no boundaries, no borders to cross. Love is simple, hate breeds. Those who think difference is the child of disease. Father and son make love and guns, Families together kill someone. Without love, I believe in love.”
Elton John (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love, I love, I love, killer whales, and I love mangos, and Iggy Pop too, I love Iggy Pop, and eating, getting up in the morning, and going swimming, and taking a good shit, and I love all of you too!”
Flea (musician) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Woodstock '99 clip (1999)
“As evolution proceeds it shows itself as a gradual expansion of the love faculty, passing through the stages of love of mate, love of family, love of surrounding associates, to love of one's entire environment; patriotism gives place later to love of humanity, p. 595”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard For love to ever last My heart should be well-schooled Cause I've been fooled in the past But still I fall in love so easily I fall in love too fast”
Sammy Cahn (1913–1993) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1944)
“I am not a perfectionist at all. I love failure. I love mistakes. I love the bizarre. I love characters. I love missing teeth. I love beauty because your eyes are off-center. And how can you notice that in the buzz of the city? So I like the emptiness.”
Josh Homme (born 1973) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Jonathan Horsley, "Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme Q&A", Decibel Magazine (July 22nd, 2011).
“True love, true love. It must be true love. Nothing else can break my heart like True love, true love. It must be true love. No one else can break my heart like you.”
Pink (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is the purpose of creation of this world. Without love politics would not have a meaning. Life would not have a meaning either. God created the purpose of this world as love. God says; “Love Me and I will love you.” The whole system is based on that. Without love nothing has any meaning.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 June 2013.
“Splitting love among differences between love and soul, love and the heart, love and the body love and life and slicing it further into multiple pieces how may I offer you my entire love?”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, there's got to be true love, true love True love just to make it Oh, there's got to be true love, true love True love just to take it.”
Ric Ocasek (1944–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God ... demands everything, in order to give everything anew to him who loves Him, after that loving has truly given up all.”
Martin Buber (1878–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Japanese husband is considerate, faithful and patient. It is his philosophy, his religion. He is a home-loving man and naturally he is thoughtful of the little attentions to his home and family. Every woman loves these little attentions.”
Caroline Takamine Beach (1866–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My family loves me and accepts me for who I am. No parent can stop loving his child. I am daddy's little girl in his eyes. Of course, they don't want me to continue [in pornography], but I tell them my plans, what I am doing and, most importantly, I tell them I am happy and that's what they want most.”
Sunny Leone (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O most gracious and eternal God and loving Father, Who hast poured out Thy bowels upon us, and sent the Son of Thy love unto us to die for love, and to make us dwell in love, and the eternal comprehensions of Thy Divine mercies, O be pleased to inflame my heart with a holy charity towards Thee and all the world.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 4, section 10.
“Where do those golden rainbows end? Why is this song so sad? Dreaming the dreams I've dreamed my friend Loving the love I love To love is just a word I've heard when things are being said Stories my poor head has told me cannot stand the cold And in between what might have been and what has come to pass A misbegotten guess alas and bits of broken glass…”
James Taylor (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is all love, and the more we are like Him the more we shall love; the trouble is not in the quantity but the quality of our love. If it were wholly pure, wholly unselfish, it could not be too deep or intense; for all true loving lifts us to a higher plane, bringing us nearer to God and the eternal goodness.”
Arthur Kenney (1776–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source