Quotes about Love

What husband is he who abandons his wife? What wife is she taken without love? The gods demand of us action and the use of our free will! That is piety, not to buckle beneath necessity's yoke like dumb beasts!

Do not tell me death is real. It is not. I have sustained my heart for ages with the love my brother passed on to me, dead as he was.

The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse.

the man who really loves his country is not the one who refuses to attack it when he has been unjustly driven from it, but the man whose desire for it is so strong that he will shrink from nothing in his efforts to get back there again.

Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

The opposite of fear is love—love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning to love.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

To labor in the arts for any other reason than love, is prostitution.

The Sphere of Potentiality—i.e., the dimension above the Material Plane—recognizes the alteration in our hero. She has changed. She is not the same person she was, even ten seconds earlier. She has, by an act of will and love and daring, stepped out of the role of the passive and the self-paralyzed and into the role of the active protagonist, the hero. She has in fact become a hero, quaking knees notwithstanding. The universe comes to the hero's aid.

The soul. Mother love. Courage. These are closer to God, she taught, because they alone are the same on both sides of death, in front of the curtain and behind. "When I first came

A wife's prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else's, even his mother's. (Sorry, Mom.)