Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Alexander Dubcek

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

Khloe Kardashian

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

E. M. Forster

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

E. M. Forster

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

E. M. Forster

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

E. M. Forster

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Barack Obama

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit--qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. It is growth along these lines that will make us whole, and will enable the individual to become world to himself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

Anne Lamott

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

Anne Lamott

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

Anne Lamott

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Anne Lamott

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.