Quotes on Love

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

As an entrepreneur, I've learned how crucial it is to be able to call a spade a spade and avoid falling in love with a particular strategy or product. Instead, you need to let the customer tell you what she needs - and to change her as she changes.

I remember that the first time I looked at my son, of course I felt love. But I think the first feeling was not love: it was fear. Someone is needing me. If something happens to him, what am I going to do? Maybe I won't survive if something happens to him? The fear was as big as the love.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

Laughter is an instant vacation.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.