Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

Plato

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Plato

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Plato

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

Love is a grave mental illness.

Plato

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Plato

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Plato

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Plato

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Plato

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

Plato

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

Plato

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Plato

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Plato

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Plato

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Plato

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

Plato

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Plato

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

Philip Larkin

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Philip Larkin

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

Philip Larkin

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough....

Philip Larkin

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

Phil Harding

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others

Phil Harding

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

Phil Harding

A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

Phil Jackson

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Phil McGraw

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Mary Engelbreit

The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Ledisi

It takes a while to really love yourself.

Lee Ann Womack

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.