Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch you suffer. Tory: Why would you do that? He led her hand to his face so that she was touching his cheek as he stared at her. His eyes and the pain in them burned her soul deep. Ash: Because I don't feel broken when you look at me.

We pardon as long as we love.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

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

Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me 'Love You Forever.' I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

There is nothing you can control about love.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.