“Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” LoveYearsMomentsSpiritualLove IsGenerationsOffspringAffinityCourtshipSpiritual Love Author:Nikki Giovanni
“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.” YearsFirstsLongSelfMovingJoyMotherTermLove IsAnimalExistenceDelightRangeSensibilityExpansionAbsorbingSuppressionMother's Love Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.” MenYearsAgeJobsDiesOpportunityLossLove IsWifeSuicideCommitAttractiveOld ManElevenOne WomanLove LossAge 30 Author:Warren Farrell
“I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.” YearsLove IsFiveUnhappyFive YearsBonus Author:Bo Derek
“The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.” ThinkingMenWorldWayYearsLittlesDoneWholePastLove IsRichMiddleRegretLoversMen And WomenBitesTurkeysFlipCocktailsDon't RegretNapkinsYears Of Life Author:Marie Dressler
“Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.” PeopleGivingYearsLittlesArtMadeBookFeelingsHandsAbleLove IsObjectsMinesParticularTenGive MeCardsCrafts Author:Sarah Kay
“Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.” ThinkingWayNeedsYearsHeartDifferentUsedLove IsFailingLove YouDifferent WaysPackagesOpen Your Heart Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.” WritingYearsHas BeensLove IsExistenceIllusionInfiniteSentencesTotalityOne SentenceInfinite Love Author:David Icke
“Trust, like love, is a word that has great power Everybody deserves their own space, in their own time. You are even entitled to keep secrets. But it is not secrets that destroys things, suspicion does. For it may take many years to build trust, sometimes.. all it takes is suspicion, you don't even need proof to destroy trust. So, if you say you can trust someone, you're admitting to something that is even greater than love. Trust, like love, is a word that has great power.” IfsNeedsYearsMayDoeSometimesSpaceLove IsSecretGreaterTrustDeserveProofSuspicionEntitledGreat PowerAdmittingLike LoveTrust Love Author:Rita Zahara
“How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.” YearsDoeHas BeensAsksLove IsHeardHusbandMarriedFranceJustificationMistress Author:Marilyn Yalom
“Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.” LoveYearsHeartRunningYoungCoursesLove IsSunShiningObstaclesBarsSmoothProsperousSun Shines Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do.” IfsWantInspirationalYearsPlayMotivationalFightingLove IsFirePlayerTeamFansFrontsStupidModelsHarderCrowdsCornersCoachesHockeyUnpredictableTeammateNhlBenchesPlayoffsBest Hockey Author:Ken Dryden
“You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.” KnowsLoveYearsI CanAgeForgetLove IsTenAngryBetrayalNever ForgetHelplessForget ItLove Betrayal Book:Look Back in Anger Source: Look Back in Anger
“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.” KnowsLoveYearsChildrenHas BeensLove IsSixMarriedMature Love Author:James Thurber
“Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.” PeopleYearsReasonEnergyCommunityLove IsRocksMusicianAnd LoveSickBunchChanging Your LifeGoodwillPositive Energy Author:Lars Ulrich
“I've been a professional for I think 13, 14 years. It's not easy hitting balls every day and staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal [that] you're going to have ups and downs. But I found my way again. And I love the sport. I love competing. I love battling. I love being out there and playing in front of crowds. This is what I've been doing since I was a child. There's nothing else that I want to do.” ThinkingWayWantYearsChildrenWholeFoundEasySportsLove IsFrontsPeriodsNormalBallsCrowdsMy WayStayingMotivatedHittingCompetingUps & Downs Author:Jelena Jankovic
“Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.” IfsWorldYearsHumansWould BeHuman BeingsLove IsVisionPracticeThis WorldConvincing Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.” PeopleYearsMadeAbleLove IsWifeYears AgoMy WifeLifestyleGreat ThingsNebraska Author:Jason Peter
“The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who planned and planted and replanned and replanted them, who dug in the dirt and moved hoses and watched the gardens change with the cycle of the seasons and over the passage of years.” PeopleYearsMadeStillsLove IsGardenSeasonsMovedCyclesPassagesDirt Author:Allen Lacy