Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

Pearl S. Buck

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl S. Buck

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

Peace Pilgrim

The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure.

Peace Pilgrim

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Peace Pilgrim

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things....

Peace Pilgrim

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

Paula Patton

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

Paula McLain

I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.

Paul Walker

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Peter Tosh

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Peter V. Brett

Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.

Peter Ustinov

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Peter Ustinov

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

Peter Ustinov

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

Peter Ustinov

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Peter Ustinov

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter L. Berger

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

Peter Kreeft

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Peter Kreeft

But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.

Peter Kreeft

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Peter Kreeft

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

Peter Kreeft

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Peter Kreeft

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Peter Kreeft

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

Peter Kreeft

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Peter Kreeft

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Peter Kreeft

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Peter Kreeft

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Peter Breggin

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

Pelle Almqvist

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

Pele

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!