Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

Charles Bukowski

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Charles Bukowski

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

Charles Bukowski

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sydney Smith

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Pink

I live in America. I love being an American.

Bernie Siegel

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love....

Bernie Siegel

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

Bernie Siegel

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Bernie Siegel

Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day. You'll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned: Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.

Brian Selznick

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

Brian Tracy

You can only have as much love for yourself as you can express to others.

Brian Tracy

The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

Brian Tracy

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

Brian Aldiss

Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.

Brian Blessed

My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.

Brian Blessed

I can't retire from life. I love life too much and I cannot wait to start the day.

Brendan Behan

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Brendan Behan

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brenda Ueland

the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

Brenda Ueland

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Brad Pitt

You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

Brad Barkley

I pu my finger to her lips. "You have to hush a minute so that I can tell you something." "What?" she says, bites my finger. I look at her. "I love you." She gets quiet, the kind of quiet that sinks into her, softens her. "Well that works out," she finally says, her voice deeper and breathless, her eyes moist, "because I love you too." She turns, leans against my arm, and settles into me.

Jane Hirshfield

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

Jane Hirshfield

And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

Jane Goldman

In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - wont you believe me?

Jane Goodall

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

Jane Fonda

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

Jamie Cullum

My pure love is playing music.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.