Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine L'Engle

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

Madeleine L'Engle

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

... we always love best the people who need us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.

Louisa May Alcott

to marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...

Louisa May Alcott

Love is a beautifier.

John Green

Love is the most common miracle.

John Fowles

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Jonathan Edwards

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

Jonathan Edwards

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Joyce Carol Oates

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

Joyce Carol Oates

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.

Owen Wilson

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

Ovid

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Paul McCartney

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

Patti Stanger

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

Perry Farrell

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Paullina Simons

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

Paullina Simons

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

Meher Baba

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

Meher Baba

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

Meher Baba

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Martin Buber

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

Martin Amis

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Pope Benedict XVI

Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

Pierre Corneille

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Pope Francis

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Pope Francis

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

Rachel Bilson

I just really love being in my pajamas.

Pete Townshend

Your love is like heroin.