Quotes on Love

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.