quotes and sayings on love

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979



When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs



I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys



Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki



Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? ~Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus"



Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987



In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ~Lenny Bruce



Any day spent sewing, is a good day. ~Author Unknown



If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. ~John Donne, 1623



God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~W.E. Channing



Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)



You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same. ~Daniel Knode



Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. ~Isa Upanishad



A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



You men are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from? ~Mary Edwards Walker



The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~Oscar Wilde



Patients may recover in spite of drugs or because of them. ~J.H. Gaddum



I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner



Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths. ~Author Unknown



Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. ~Ugo Betti