Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

Anne Sullivan

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Bob Dylan

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

Bayard Rustin

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

Ashthon Jones

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

Barbara Pym

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Albert Einstein

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

Charles Kingsley

Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

Anais Nin

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

Albert Schweitzer

Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

Alfred Adler

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

C. S. Lewis

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Henry Van Dyke

Love is not about getting - but giving.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

Khalil Gibran

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

Khalil Gibran

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Khalil Gibran

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Henri Nouwen

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

Heinrich Heine

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.

George Sand

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

Jennifer Lopez

Love to me is someone telling me, 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I'd jump out of a plane for you.'

James A. Baldwin

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

P. C. Cast

True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one

Paulo Coelho

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

Paulo Coelho

Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

Leo Tolstoy

Where there is love, there is God also.

Leo Buscaglia

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

Mother Teresa

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.