Quotes About Love

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved—

You must set forth and find the center of your interest. You are a creator, but you must find your interest and then dedicate yourself to that interest—not to the act of creativity. Merely to want to create will make it impossible for you to do so. You must find an interest greater than yourself—a love, perhaps—and then the power to create will set you on fire.

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.

Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.

Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers.

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever.

Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused.

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?

The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.

Liz, it's so easy to say 'I'm sorry.' It costs nothing and it saves a mint of pain. Those two words are the common coin of daily life, but especially between people who love each other.

It is sweet to be loved, but to be able to love is to possess the life force. I love you. Therefore I am strong. Whatever my age, I am sustained by my own power to love.

Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.

Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs.

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.

Love dies only when growth stops.

There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.

Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.

You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.

but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal