Quotes on Love

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Nothing prepared me for your smile

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.