Famous Quotes & Sayings

Radhanath Swami

Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike....

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the essence of God....

Sean Penn

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

Lily Tomlin

There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.

Lily Tomlin

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lin Yutang

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Lin Yutang

Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more.

Lena Horne

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

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.

Lenny Bruce

There are never enough I Love You's.