“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“With our love, we could save the world.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Variant: All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Source: Mad Love
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“I like you very much. Just as you are.”
Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary
“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?
“You love life because life's all there is.”
Glen Duncan (1965) British writer
Source: The Last Werewolf
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander
First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variant: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
from the play "God".
Without Feathers (1975)
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
Variant: Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Source: To Love and Be Loved
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Article on Biography.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
“Love is what you've been through with somebody”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Selected Poems
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of Shadows
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”
Andrea Levy book The Long Song
Source: The Long Song
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" or sometimes just "I hate quotations".
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving
Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
The Earth, Act IV, l. 403
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”
Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
Jane Austen book Love and Freindship
Source: Love and Friendship
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"The Times Newspaper"
Political Essays (1819)
“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
David Foster Wallace book The Pale King
Source: The Pale King (2011)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Attributed in The National elementary principal https://books.google.com/books?id=T8YVAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&dq=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1iNCMvcHLAhUMcz4KHXvcCt84MhDoAQgfMAE (1948) - Volume 28 - Page 34; a similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace." A similar quotation is found in My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) by Sri Chinmoy: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God." <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“Harry: Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Eternal nothingness is O. K. if you're dressed for it.”
Woody Allen book Getting Even
Getting Even (1971), My Philosophy
Variant: Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source). <br class="br">Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
Divine Love and Wisdom #1
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Jotted (in German) on the margins of a letter to him (1933), p. 56
Unsourced variants: Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. / You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”
Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian salon-holder
Source: Reported in, "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, p. 167.
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
Ferenc Dávid (1510–1579) Hungarian noble
This attribution seems to have begun in the 1960s, and has been debunked at "Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World (15 August 2012) http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/229844.shtml; previously misattributed in A Chosen Faith (1991) by John A. Buehrens; also in Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith by Mark W. Harris https://web.archive.org/web/20060101061859/www.uua.org/info/origins.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3
Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet
As quoted in Notable Thoughts About Women : A Literary Mosaic (1882) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars
Afraid
“Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
Rollo May book Love and Will
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 29