Quotes on Love

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

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

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.