“At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.”
– Hillary Clinton
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
– Mason Cooley
“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.”
– Pierre Beaumarchais
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
– E. M. Forster
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
– Milan Kundera
“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“This love is silent.”
– T. S. Eliot
“When people are lame, they love to blame.”
– Robert Kiyosaki
“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”
– Marilyn Manson
“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.”
– Bob Hope
“Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.”
– Greg Anderson
“If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.”
– Yakov Smirnoff
“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.”
– Angelina Jolie
“My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.”
– Kenny Loggins
“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.”
– Pope John Paul II
“If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”
– Douglas Horton
“I love my children beyond all reason. They’re my joy, even when they’re wild with kid energy.”
– Christopher Meloni
“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld