Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Gustav Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Marcus Valerius Martial

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Ken Keyes

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

Ken Keyes

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

Khalil Gibran

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.

John Oxenham

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Baruch Spinoza

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Dennis McBride

The time for talking is over; it?s time to remedy the situation,

Publilius Syrus

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Hippocrates

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

George Diller

It will take some time really to understand what to do to remedy the situation.

Tim McCarver

They have yet to come up with a remedy for that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Edna Ferber

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Diablo Cody

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Diana Gabaldon

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Gene Wilder

What is essential is invisible to the eye,

Nadia Giosia

I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

Jodi Picoult

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Marilyn vos Savant

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

Federico Fellini

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.