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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Brad Pittborn 1963US Weekly (18 September 2000)
- Comedy
- Marriage
I made a decision that, rather than looking for Love, I would let Love be me. Let Love be my life.
Val Kilmer1959–2025I’m Your Huckleberry: A Memoir (2020), p. 302
We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
Harry Stylesborn 1994Speaking at his concert the day after the Manchester Arena bombing (23 May 2017)
I learned I couldn’t shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
Diane Keaton1946–2025Then Again (2011), Afterword to the 2012 edition
I think I’m a little bit heartbroken all the time, even when I’m in a happy relationship. I don’t do casual very well, and my feelings, even the good ones, get so intense that they hurt.
Dakota Johnsonborn 1989Haskell, Rob (January 13, 2017). “Fifty Shades’s Dakota Johnson on Sex, Fame, and Building a Career on Her Own Terms”
- Emotion
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Moses1393–1273 BCDeuteronomy 6:4-5 (KJV)
- God
For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “Realisation in Love”
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1869), Bk. XII, Ch. 16
- Life & Death
The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Viktor Frankl1905–1997Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
- Philosophy
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988)
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), in Toward the Future (1975), trans. René Hague
- God
There is no more powerful motivation than to feel we’re being used in the creation of a world where love has healed all wounds.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” (1992), Ch. 7: Work, §9: Sales to Service
- Motivation & Goals
The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
FBFrancis William Bourdillon1852–1921“Light” (popularly known as “The Night has a Thousand Eyes”), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Little Book of Buddhism (2000)
- Enemies