Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milan Kundera

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

Mike Mason

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

Marcel Proust

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow..

Marcel Proust

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Marcel Proust

La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

Marcel Proust

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Marcel Proust

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

Jose Marti

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Jose Marti

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is exclusivity, selection.

Jose Gonzalez

Love is just chemicals.

Jorge Amado

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Joni Mitchell

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

Kevin Brockmeier

Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.

Kevin Williams

Love is the answer. Now, what is your question?

Jimmy Page

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

Louise Hay

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

Louise Hay

Love is everywhere, and I am loving and lovable,

Louise Hay

Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

Louise Hay

Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.

Madeleine L'Engle

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love is the one surprise.

Madeleine L'Engle

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

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 ...