Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Mother Teresa

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Mother Teresa

I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.

Mother Teresa

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

Mira Nair

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

Peace Pilgrim

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things....

Peter Ustinov

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Shunryu Suzuki

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

Larry David

Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

Marcus Aurelius

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Thomas a Kempis

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love....

Leo Tolstoy

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

Leo Tolstoy

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Peter Kreeft

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Phil Anselmo

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

Peter Carey

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

Philip Pullman

And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Ramakrishna

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Radhanath Swami

Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Lily Tomlin

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lena Horne

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

LaToya Jackson

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

Thom Yorke

Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.

Leo Buscaglia

He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.

Leo Buscaglia

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.