Love Quotes - Page 108

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

Be true to Love. Do not betray Her. Then, on the day that the forest of the mind bursts into flames, you will not run. You will remain silent and still; for this is when Love bears Her sweetest fruit: untouched Presence.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Strip away the fear, underneath it's all the same love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.