Quotes on Love

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

Great loves too must be endured.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay, the time it is willing to give, the hardships it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of "how little," but always in terms of "how much." Love gives, love knows, and love lasts.

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.