Attaining Love Quotes

#1. Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

Albert Einstein

#2. What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.

Toni Packer

#3. To remain virile in the light demands the audacity of a mad ignorance: letting oneself catch fire, screaming with joy, expecting death - because of an unknown, unknowable presence; becoming love and blind light oneself, attaining the perfect incomprehension of the sun.

Georges Bataille

#4. When the anesthesia of love wears off,
you suffer the pain of consequence.

Amy Tan

#5. A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a bit of wiggle room.

Bill Dedman

#6. I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. Love is the force behind success in all aspects of life. Fear is what holds everyone back from achieving their dreams and attaining success.

Farshad Asl

#8. Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

#10. He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.

Jane Austen

#11. I was away from home, I was a virgin, I thought I had a soul.

Jonathan Aycliffe

#12. Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#13. Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#14. I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness
people and things that are compatible, love ... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

William Faulkner

#15. Then came night
that was like falling water.
At times, for hours,
a bird spirit,
half buzzard, half swan,
just above the rushes
from which a snow-storm howls.

Peter Huchel

#16. Why not end up with her? floats into my line of vision. An answer: she has a better body than most other girls I know. Another one: everyone is interchangeable anyway.

Bret Easton Ellis

#17. I don't like condo life.

Mitch Gaylord

#18. What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.

Christopher Moore

#19. We (sometimes) get so far ahead of (ourselves) instead of living out each day that we forget to really appreciate the moment that we're in - even if it's (temporarily) bad.

Shari Wiedmann

#20. The First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious occurrences that change one's life, the feeling that some other process is operating.

James Redfield

#21. Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.

Carl Panzram