Robyn Raath: "But love isn’t just about feeling good. It’s about doing what you don’t want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice.” – Dr Meg Meeker.
For many, when February rolls in, they can’t help but feel that warm tingly feeling in the heart that only comes from thoughts of love.
Love means so many things to so many people, and sometimes you find a quote that perfectly describes what love is to you.
The staff of Orban School shared their favourite love quotes.
Principal Liz van Tonder: “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jnr.
Annalize Els: “Everyone wants to be loved. So love unconditionally. A hug is an expression of love. It makes you feel loved, secure, and wanted. Hug a bit longer.”
Phuleng Lebuso: “Love is worth everything.”
Eveleen Mnqwiniso: “Love doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be true.”
Sinethemba Sithole: “Spread love everywhere you go.”
Dorothy: “Life is like a flower and love is the honey.”
Onickè Swanepoel: “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.” – 1 Corinthians 13.
Euline Coetzee: “All of me loves all of you.” – John Legend
Barbara Scholtz: “All you need is Love.”
Michele Becker: “Nobody become a full human being without love.” – Thomas Keating.
Edward Ngobese: “Love makes the world beautiful.”
Simoné Fourie: “I think you have to live through what love is not before you can truly appreciate what love is.” – Dante Paladino.
Carla Venter: “I think love can be like sunsets. It starts with a blazing orange sun, fire in the heart and veins until it turns into a gentle pink glow bringing comfort to your soul.” – Taylor Foy in Dancing with the Butterflies.
Padré Swanepoel: “Do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa.
Natalie Thwaits: “Love always heals, always empowers, always lifts, always endures and always builds a bridge.” – Mary Davis
Dineo Mmolutsi: “Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”
Annette Zeelie: “And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is Love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13.
Esther Mphuthi: “Love frees us from pain.”
Lydia Mamabolo: “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Olivet Wendell Holmes
Bright Ndima: “You always gain by giving love.”
Lauretta Masetloa: “Love is patient and kind.” – 1 Corinthians 13.
Stephen Hawkins: “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway” – Edgar Allan Poe
Denise Richardson: “Love is being married to one special person you can annoy for the rest of your life.”
Lazarus Moraba: “Where there is love there is life.”
Rowena Smit: “Love is knowing someone completely and still choosing them every day.”
Robyn Raath: “But love isn’t just about feeling good. It’s about doing what you don’t want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice.” – Dr Meg Meeker.
Ryno Effenberger: “It’s impossible,” said Pride. “It’s risky,” said Experience. “It’s pointless,” said Reason. “Give it a try,” whispered the heart.
