Quotes About Love

Tagore: "Power said to the world, 'You are mine.' Love said to the world, 'I am yours.' Love won.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

instead of fighting everything so much, you could just open your heart and see where it leads you.

You are so beautiful in that little black dress." "Every girl should own a little black dress" "Every boy should see his girl in one.

Open up your heart and see where it leads you...

Great, I'm dating the ungay . Is that like the undead?

God, Alex loved me. He truly did. I just hadn't learned that time is elastic: it stretches and gives, far more graciously than it probably should, and then one day, when you least expect it, something simply ruptures, and you sheltered life is done.

Yeah, I have a burning issue all right, Dr Weinburger. I wish someone would tell me why it is, with Allie gone and the father count reduced by one, that I can't be Daddy to my little girl anymore.

The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life.

Something within her, calm and apparently rational, was thinking that it was impossible for her to continue living without him, that she needed him as she needed air. She did not believe that she could bear the loneliness of being in this world without him.

The great (American-definition) liberal Lionel Trilling wrote in 1948 that "we must be aware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes," because "when once we have made our fellowmen the objects of our enlightened interest [we] go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."18 Every mother knows the dangers. And when she loves the beloved for the beloved's own sake, she resists them.

People are motivated in varying proportions by prudence, temperance, courage, justice, faith, hope, and love, together with the corresponding vices.

But what gives human love its special poignancy, and gives human justice its special dignity, is the limit to life.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers.

To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

Love doesn't need to be equal or be fair it only needs to be real!

Richard still calls me "darling" in a heart-melting way. He tells me I'm brave to fall in love again and urges me on in my writing as he always does.

Surprises don't come from people we know well, certainly not people we love. We call them surprises but they are inevitabilities.

Louisa and Marie are loving and caring, and these two dinners feel like betrayal. I mean, friendship betrayal. I take friendship seriously. A friendship is a trust.

And one single thing about all this: We were both seventy-two and age meant nothing. We were getting as loopy, as obsessed with each other as anyone falling under the spell of romance.