Love Quotes - Page 240

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Love is the secret password to every soul.

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.

What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.