Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.

Iyanla Vanzant

You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do.

Elton John

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

Ellen Bass

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Ian Mcewan

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

Gloria Steinem

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

Geraldine McCaughrean

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

J. K. Rowling

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

J. K. Rowling

I love you, Hermione,” said Ron.

J. K. Rowling

I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, “Don’t let Lavender hear you saying that.” “I won’t,” said Ron into his hands. “Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .

J. K. Rowling

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

J. K. Rowling

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Gary L. Francione

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Huey Lewis

I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.

Sara Teasdale

Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

Sara Teasdale

Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

William Blake

The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

Sammy Sosa

Mark (McGwire), you know I love you. It's been unbelievable. I wish you could be here with me today. I know you are watching me and I know you have the same feelings for me as I have for you in my heart.

Salmon P. Chase

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

W. H. Auden

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Wayne Dyer

Giving Love to Others is Directly Related to How Much Love you Have for Yourself!

Wayne Dyer

You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.

Wayne Dyer

When you trust in yourself, you are trusting in the same wisdom that created you. When you fail to trust in yourself, when you fail to love yourself, you are denying your own Divinity, and therefore attracting the opposite of what The Source is.

Wayne Dyer

If you have anything in your heart other than love, you've got to get it out.

Van Morrison

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

Van Morrison

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

Tyrese Gibson

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

Tyrese Gibson

I think a fan is a fan and when they support you and when they love you and when they embrace you and what you bring to the table, as long as you bring something that's quality to the table they're going to show up and support it.

Virginia Satir

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

Saul Williams

My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.

Saul Bellow

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.