Love Quotes - Page 441

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper "I love you" in a 1000 different ways.

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.