We were classically in love, holding the classic beliefs: Everything is possible between us, we can authentically care for each other through not just the coming days but . . . the numerous busy decades to come. . . . It's in no way denigrating to admit what we all know: This time comes and then it goes. —Jane Shapiro More about this quote Tags: love care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will love You forever," swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. I will love You at 4:15 pm next Tuesday: is that still as easy? —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love forever Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power. —Phyllis Rose More about this quote Tags: love power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy. —Gillian Rose More about this quote Tags: love relationships democracy mercy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals. —Parker J. Palmer More about this quote Tags: justice truth love time death goals victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our thoughts limit what we're capable of doing. There are external forces arrayed against us, but there are also internal forces that sabotage us before we even get started. Our mind is good at setting us up for failure and getting us to think small. But I have found that we will do for love that which we don't think is possible. So the question to ask ourselves is "What do I love? —Julia Butterfly Hill More about this quote Tags: love mind failure thoughts sabotage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive, or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive, and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom. —Richard Brautigan More about this quote Tags: love emotion promises writers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother was my first jealous lover. —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More about this quote Tags: love mother jealousy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. —Amy Tan More about this quote Tags: love mind birth parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know her face by heart. Sometimes I think nothing will break her spell. —Daphne Merkin More about this quote Tags: love memory knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. —Amy Lowell More about this quote Tags: love mystery universe sex magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: love hate happiness secret scandal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture. —Luther A. Weigle More about this quote Tags: love life reality God children birth earth air awakening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. —Anna Sewell More about this quote Tags: love kindness religion good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness. . . . This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud. . . . I have the immense joy of being a member of a race in which God became incarnate. . . . There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love God laughter joy dream brotherhood relief separateness renunciation holiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email