Those We Love Quotes

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. — Thomas Merton

Those are the things that define us. The way we love the people around us, and the choices we make to show it. That's what makes us who we are. — Rebecca Serle

We hold one another close in this, our last moment and kiss. Your goodbye is in our lips, good luck wishes shine in those robin's egg blue eyes. — J.D. Holiday

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?
Wanda — Ouida

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers. — Chaka Khan

If we all aim to love ourselves, every bit, we will become love and radiate beauty to all those around us. — Shantel VanSanten

That the most honorable thing in life is not to live it selfishly, but to take risks for those we love. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. — Anna Brownell Jameson

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. — P.D. James

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did. — Sorin Cerin

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. — Walker Percy

I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive. — Melissa De La Cruz

We must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. — Alexander McCall Smith

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. — Criss Jami

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron

Funny how the stupid shit we do for those we love hardens into legend. — Taylor Adams

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us. — Lucinda Riley

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them. — Mary E. DeMuth

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...? — Anne Rouen

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. — Gustave Flaubert

321. - We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love. — Pope Francis

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are — Mark Nepo

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's not so much the journey that's important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way — Jeremy Aldana

We are never very far from those we hate. For this very reason, we shall never be truly close to those we love. — Albert Sanchez Pinol

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it. — Glenn Greenwald

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love. — Leith Anderson

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen Of Scots

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us. — Traci Lords

We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. — Ruth Carter Stapleton

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us. — Laozi

Those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect. — Donald Miller

Breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. — David Levithan

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again? — David Vann

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love. — Auliq Ice

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake. — Alyson Richman

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. — Leo Tolstoy

What redeems us as human beings and restores us to our humanity is solicitude for those whom we love. — Bruno Bettelheim

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated. — Auliq Ice

When we are well loved, we inevitably give love to those around us. — Mark Whitwell

Those whom we love are often the most alien to us. — Christopher Paolini

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. — Anna Held

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. — Jonathan Edwards

I don't call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love. — Farshad Asl

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us. — Philibert Joseph Roux

It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener — Dave Burchett

Sometimes people let us down. Even those we love and trust the most. When it comes down to it, humans are pretty weak creatures. — Paul Pilkington

The most real presence of all is the abscence of those we love. — Gina B. Nahai

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. — Liane Moriarty

Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most. — Karen White

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves. — Christian D. Larson

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. — Michael Moore

It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated. — Norm MacDonald

To the men and women who own men and women
those of us meant to be lovers
we will not pardon you
for wasting our bodies and time — Leonard Cohen

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love. — Bill Crawford

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome. — Leo Tolstoy

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about. — Tom Baker

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener. — Emily Dickinson

Those were the reasons we both knew how deep love was, the shared pain that would outlast any pain we caused each other. — Amy Tan

Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid. — Elizabeth Goudge

We all know the feeling of being torn away from those we love most because of sin and guilt. — Jim C. Cunningham

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. — Jeanette Winterson

To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Made me more aware of how we should always guard our tongues and never walk away from those we love in anger. Life lesson learned. — Lora Ann

We drink to those who love us, we drink to those who don't. We drink to those who fuck us, and fuck those who don't! — Tamsyn Bester

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. — Nikki Giovanni

I think now, looking back, that we all die, little by little, as each of those we love departs before us. — Brian Ruckley

We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all. — Frederick Lenz

We love most those who we serve most. — Bryant H. McGill

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves. — Jean De La Bruyere

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

We are easily duped by those we love. — Moliere

The whole deal about loving truly and for real and with all you've got has everything to do with letting those we love see what made us. — Cheryl Strayed

We say in Japan that those who travel for love find a thousand miles not longer than one. Though — Marc Cameron

Because if we don't forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it's not loving our lovers even when they don't deserve it? — Fredrik Backman

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are. — Mark Nepo

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands. — Jean De La Bruyere

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. — Alfred Day Hershey

We're both crazy, like those who first invented love. — Paulo Coelho

Those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death. — Elizabeth Goudge

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them ... — Fanny Kemble

The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said. — Tyler Knight

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates. — Paolo Giordano

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I — Jerry Bridges

There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love — Michael Xavier

We are made of all those who have built and broken us. — Atticus Poetry

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. — Rubem Alves

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact — Richard Hall

It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so. — Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

Those we love are the only ones worth crying over. — Allie Brennan