Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

Anton Chekhov

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Anton Chekhov

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

Anton Chekhov

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

Anton Chekhov

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

Anton Chekhov

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Anton Chekhov

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

Anton Chekhov

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

Anton Chekhov

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Bellamy Young

Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

bell hooks

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

bell hooks

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

bell hooks

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

bell hooks

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

bell hooks

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

bell hooks

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

bell hooks

Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.

bell hooks

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

bell hooks

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.

bell hooks

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

bell hooks

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

bell hooks

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

bell hooks

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

bell hooks

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Barry White

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

Baltasar Gracian

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Baltasar Gracian

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

Arturo Toscanini

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Arundhati Roy

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Ari Fleischer

One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.

Ariana Grande

Love your flaws, and own your quirks.

Anthony Trollope

Never mingle love and business.