Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.

Alice Munro

She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

Alice Hoffman

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

Alice Hoffman

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Alice Hoffman

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

Alice Hoffman

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Duer Miller

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Cary

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

Alice Cary

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can....

Alice Cooper

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

Anne Michaels

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Anne Michaels

Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Lamott

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

Anne Lamott

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

Anne Lamott

Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

Anne Lamott

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Ann Wilson

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

Anna Akhmatova

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

Ann Voskamp

You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

Andy Partridge

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.