If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. —Clint Eastwood More about this quote Tags: certainty guarantee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What force is more potent than love? —Igor Stravinsky More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To love another person is to see the face of God. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little it mattered where you are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done to get there [imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the longer I was there, the better I felt. . . . I felt filled with love for everyone: everyone I knew and everyone I didn't know; for plants, fish, animals; even bankers, generals, prison guards, and lying politicians — everything and everyone. Why did I feel so good? Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is supposed to be if we weren't so busy trying to make it something else? —David Dellinger More about this quote Tags: love God good death prison trying resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. —Erica Jong More about this quote Tags: love cynicism risk effort fighting subversiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: love regret death conversation waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our society, we've become myopic and obsessive about one particular kind of love: dyadic love, which takes the form of romance, sex, marriage. As a result we end up asking all the wrong questions. Books about relationships talk about how to "get" the love you need, how to "keep" love, and so on. But the right question to ask is "How do I become a more loving human being? —Sam Keen More about this quote Tags: love relationships society romance marriage sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. —Adela Rogers St. Johns More about this quote Tags: difference marriage settling husbands Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: love imagination imagination relationship boredom sentiment duty staleness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: love others kindness people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor marriage wives Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: love time lying dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? —Anita Loos More about this quote Tags: love romance food middle age fatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: love old age marriage conversation talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During his stint as host of a show called You Bet Your Life, Groucho Marx interviewed many participants. On one occasion he interviewed a Mrs. Story, who had given birth to twenty-two children. "I love my husband," Mrs. Story said enthusiastically. "I like my cigar, too," said Groucho, "but I take it out once in a while. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: love relationships marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email