If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward.
“Cather…”
Back up to his eyes.
“You know that I’m falling in love with you, right?
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them.
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
[Dedication to Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]
…unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.
Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you’re just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.
Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees. Ian was right. It’s time to move on. Not to forget, but to forge ahead.
I only have so much willpower, Helen,” he whispered. “And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I’ve ever seen, I’m going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
I don’t think we get a choice in who we fall for,” Ian whispers. “I think we just do.
I love empowering women. I think it’s crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you’re playing yourself – I ride with whoever rides with me.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we’re lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It’s always been yes when it comes to you.
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.