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We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together. -- Martin Lawrence
love only variously everyday The meaning of love -- Mother Teresa
If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love. -- Gary L. Francione
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God. -- Martin Buber
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. -- Deepak Chopra
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God -- Charles Williams
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. -- Charles Williams
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. -- Gene Hill
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence. -- Fred Rogers
I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out. -- bell hooks
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love. -- Rollo May
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. -- Sylvester Stallone
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. -- Andrew Solomon
People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you. -- Paulo Coelho
No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned by a dog. -- Gene Hill
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you. -- Robert Thurman
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love. -- Julie Benz
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. -- Mason Cooley
I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. -- David Icke
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. -- Zane Grey
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. -- Rene Magritte
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. -- Thomas Merton
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. -- Christopher McQuarrie
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. -- Thornton Wilder
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. -- Billy Ocean
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -- Marc Chagall
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The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve. -- Robert Jeffress
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us. -- John Bytheway
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. -- John Ortberg
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. -- Peggy Noonan
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom. -- Geoffrey Rush
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life. -- Dan Buettner
The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being. -- John Shelby Spong
Love, life, meaning...over. -- Stephenie Meyer
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
Love has no meaning without understanding -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Time has no meaning,Love will endure.. -- Jude Deveraux
Love life more than the meaning of it? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you love you give meaning to this world. -- Sorin Cerin
Love: A term which has no meaning if defined. -- John Ralston Saul
My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love. -- Yvonne Pierre
Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. -- Dalai Lama
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning -- Dick Van Dyke
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. -- Auguste Rodin
The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God. -- Leo Tolstoy
Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life. -- Laurence Overmire
This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts. -- Mother Teresa
We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love. -- Rajneesh
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. -- Paulo Coelho
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. -- Albert Camus
Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love. -- Gavin DeGraw
The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. -- Paulo Coelho
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. -- Nicholas Sparks
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. -- George Eliot
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning. -- James Earl Jones
Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death. -- Charles Spurgeon
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. -- Mignon McLaughlin
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. -- Cesar Chavez
Love is just a word untill you and that someone who comes along give it meaning -- Livia
I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. -- David Icke
You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't. -- Thomas Merton
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word. -- Fran Drescher
Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. -- E. B. White
Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning? -- Ellen Hopkins
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. -- Zane Grey
No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage. -- Judith Orloff
The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children. -- David Jeremiah
When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain. -- Javan
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last). -- George Herbert
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love. -- Harold Klemp
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. -- Gregory J. P. Godek
And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you -- Cat Stevens
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways. -- Kai Knudsen
The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings. -- Margaret Mead
You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone. -- Tessa Dare
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. -- Mother Teresa
It's so fun to be in love or so I've heard, the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word -- Eyedea
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world. -- Bernie Siegel
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. -- Agatha Christie
The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. -- Mary Balogh
Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. -- Nando Parrado
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony. -- Colin Marston
I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom. -- Paris Hilton
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world. -- Pope Benedict XVI
You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose. -- Chet Baker
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language -- Mary Balogh
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. -- David Shuster
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. -- Leo Tolstoy
You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years. -- Viktor E. Frankl
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. -- Tim Winton
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter. -- Christopher Reeve
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. -- Glen Duncan
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. -- Greg Anderson
I say, "?You should blanket me' or "?you should blanket her', meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It's a way of showing love and caring. -- Michael Jackson
We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don't know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God. -- Pope Francis
Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning. -- Debbie Ford
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live. -- Sasha Azevedo
Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him. -- Robert Graves
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena. -- Martin Amis
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. -- Nicholas Sparks
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. -- Aelred of Rievaulx
What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms. -- Tony Robbins
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience. -- Edward Abbey
I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence. -- Tosca Lee
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning. -- Harvey Milk
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. -- Dave Willis
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it. -- Sigurd F. Olson
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you -- Nicole Krauss
Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens. -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning. -- Alexandra Cassavetes
The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game -- Rachel Cohn
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. -- Ram Dass
Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. -- Gary Chapman
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love." -- C. S. Lewis

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