Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Wilber

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

Ken Wilber

We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

Ken Wilber

...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?

Ken Wilber

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

Ken Wilber

Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love...

Keith Carradine

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

Kathy Najimy

I just say that at any weight you should love your life.

Kathy Mattea

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Katherine Jenkins

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

Katherine Mansfield

What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise

Katherine Mansfield

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Kate Braverman

They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

Kate Chopin

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Kate Chopin

Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.

Kate Bush

We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.

Kate DiCamillo

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

Karl A. Menninger

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.

Karl A. Menninger

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Karl A. Menninger

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

Karl A. Menninger

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us....

Karl A. Menninger

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....

Karl A. Menninger

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Karl A. Menninger

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Julian Baggini

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

Kim Edwards

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Marilyn Monroe

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Marilyn Monroe

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Marilyn Monroe

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Nicholas Sparks

I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.

Nicholas Sparks

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

Nicholas Sparks

If you're a bird... I'm a bird...

Nicholas Sparks

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.