Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry B. Eyring

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

Henry B. Eyring

The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Henry Adams

Man loves most that which is his own.

Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry A. Kissinger

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Helen Humphreys

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Helen Hayes

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Gurley Brown

Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an addiction.

Helen Fisher

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

Helen Fisher

Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

Helen Fisher

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

Henry Bromell

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Heather Mills

The sun is shining and the bird are singing what more could you ask for in a day!

Henry David Thoreau

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.