Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kornfield

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

J. D. Salinger

The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?

J. D. Salinger

Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.

Ivana Milicevic

You don't always marry the love of your life.

LL Cool J

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

Madeleine L'Engle

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

Louis Zamperini

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

Louis Tomlinson

Oh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo!

Louis Tomlinson

When you’re in love you’ll do anything, I’d go to the end of the world.

Lou Ferrigno

I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

John Green

I do love you and what else matters but that

John Gokongwei

You have to love your work. You have to save money instead of spending all of it. Look for areas you can compete in. Work damn hard. Most importantly, you have to love it.

Jonathan Larson

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You.

Jonathan Carroll

At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love-- you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante-- all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine.

Jonah Goldberg

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Joyce Carol Oates

My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'

Kate Walsh

Even when I lived in Chicago and I didn't have any family there, I would just go like I would be a guest and have dinner with a bunch of friends and do potluck or something. So I think that's it, just finding people that you love that love you and hang out with them.

Kate Winslet

I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'.

P. C. Cast

I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.

Peter Greenaway

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Pauley Perrette

Love is for friends & pets...and family...only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.

Paullina Simons

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

Paullina Simons

I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through...

Paullina Simons

Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I’ll take care of you.” His lips kissed her cheek.

Paullina Simons

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

Paullina Simons

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

Paul Valery

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

Mel Gibson

I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.

Meher Baba

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel....

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is the great righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally.