“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.”
Quotes about love
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“A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.”
“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.”
“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.”
“If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.”
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”
“Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”
“I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.”
“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.”
“When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.”
“He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.”
“When people are lame, they love to blame.”
“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”
“If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.”
“If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”
“I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.”
“Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.”
“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.”
“I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.”
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
“I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.”