Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Ursula LeGuin

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Smiley Blanton

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Jennifer Williams

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Matt Groening

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

William Williams

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

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.

Sydney Smith

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Aristotle

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Khaled Hosseini

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

Joanne Woodward

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.