Love quotes
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Van Morrison photo

“Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles, that's what you do.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

Steve Jobs photo

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

This favorite phrase of Jobs is from the final edition of the Whole Earth Catalog, entitled Whole Earth Epilog (1974), as he acknowledged in his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address http://www.applematters.com/article/steve_jobs_standford_commencement_address/.
Misattributed

Woody Allen photo

“[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

September (1987).

Steve Jobs photo

“I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

As quoted in "The Seed of Apple's Innovation" in BusinessWeek (12 October 2004)
2000s

Gautama Buddha photo

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Sharon Salzberg in an article in a magazine called “Woman of Power” in 1989
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Charles Bukowski photo
Woody Allen photo

“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).

Miguel de Cervantes photo

“The eyes those silent tongues of Love.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 3.

Martial photo

“Life is not living, but living in health.”
Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.

VI, 70.
Variant translations:
It is not life to live, but to be well.
Life's not just being alive, but being well.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

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Edie Brickell photo

“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”

Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States

"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

Audre Lorde photo

“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Undersong

Elbert Hubbard photo

“It is only life and love that give love and life.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 40.

Felix Adler photo

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.

Tom Robbins photo

“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”

Bernard to Leigh-Cheri, in Phase III, Ch. 46
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

Elizabeth Gilbert photo

“Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.”

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…

Donovan photo

“So these are changes that are important.”

Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist

Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: Today I can’t comment on what the problem is in China, Russia, or Africa without realizing again and again the Diamond Sutra, which says that we look at the world and see it as separate but in fact, this is an illusion, but the reality is that we are one shining being. Until this can be understood, I can’t see any change. But I see some change now. There is a world consciousness. In the "old" New Age, they talked about the Age of Aquarius being an age of enlightenment. And now when a man goes to the moon he sees the earth. Before when someone did meditation he or she could meditate on the earth and the moon but now a man and a woman can see that we are on one planet and that the water is polluted and that the air is dirty. So these are changes that are important. But when we spoke about these things in the 60s people said we were dreamers.

Mumtaz (actress) photo

“Women are meant to be loved and not understood.”

Mumtaz (actress) (1947) Indian film actress

Mumtaz, November, 1970 (Filmfare, December 7, 2011)
Quotes from Mumtaz
Source: Best of Filmfare http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/spicerack.htm

Johannes Grenzfurthner photo

“It's not working from home, it's living at work.”

Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director

via FB https://www.facebook.com/grenzfurthner/posts/10158773667254610

Piet Hein photo

“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”

Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths (1930) by William Marias Malisoff.
Misattributed

Gautama Buddha photo

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Tenzin Gyatso photo