Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Anne Porter

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

Karen Kingsbury

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

Judith Viorst

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

Joseph Conrad

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joshua Bell

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Joshua Harris

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

Josh Turner

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

Kate Mosse

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

Leonard Cohen

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only engine of survival

Laurell K. Hamilton

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

Laurell K. Hamilton

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Lars Ulrich

Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

Langston Hughes

Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

Langston Hughes

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Kyle Chandler

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

Karen Horney

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

Joy Fielding

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

Joyce Carol Oates

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Justin Bieber

I think love is like a learning process throughout your life. You learn how to be better at it and you learn more about it.

Julianna Baggott

Our love is our burden.

Julianna Baggott

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Josh Billings

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Josh Billings

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Ouida

Love is cruel as the grave.

June Jordan

We survive our love because we go on loving.

Paul Tillich

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

Paul Tillich

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

Paul Tillich

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Patrick Duffy

I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

John Piper

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.