Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Hay

Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

Louise Hay

Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.

Madeleine L'Engle

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love is the one surprise.

Madeleine L'Engle

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

Madeleine L'Engle

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

Madeleine L'Engle

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

... we always love best the people who need us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.

Louisa May Alcott

to marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...

Louisa May Alcott

Love is a beautifier.

John Green

Love is the most common miracle.

John Fowles

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Jonathan Edwards

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

Jonathan Edwards

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Joyce Carol Oates

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

Joyce Carol Oates

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

Julie Benz

I love being challenged physically, as an actress.

Judith Hill

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

Josh Hutcherson

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

Katherine Anne Porter

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

Joan Konner

Love is transcending the ego to connect with another,

Emma Thompson

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Emma Goldman

Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

Love is it's own protection.

John Henry Newman

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

John Henry Newman

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

John Hagee

Love is not what you say; love is what you do

John Donne

...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

John Donne

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.