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Welcome to these Provokes Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Provokes and Love.
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pray for the angry,
but express your prayers and intentions silently.
Saying openly to an angry person,
"I pray for you to receive inner-peace."
is almost certain to provoke an even angrier reaction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
If people are good only because they
fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Love is of all passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart and the senses.
- Lao Tzu
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
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