Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Breggin

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

Pelle Almqvist

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

Pema Chodron

If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

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.

Phil Collins

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

Peter Jackson

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Peter Carey

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

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pearl Bailey

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

Pearl Bailey

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Pearl Bailey

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To love is to approach each other center to center.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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.

Philip Pullman

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…

Rachel Cohn

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

Rachel Cohn

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

Rachel Cohn

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Rabindranath Tagore

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.