Quotes About Letting Your Guard Down For Love

#1. I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Nikki Giovanni

#2. Love just enough. What's enough? Enough to hold. When it hurts, you're loving too much. Just enough to hold. Anything more than a handful and you're in trouble.

Sarah Winman

#3. I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#4. If there are people who do it better than you, why do it?

Konnie Huq

#5. Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel De Cervantes

#6. It's the way we respond to such gifts that is up to us. We decide if our past hurts and pains are going to overshadow what is occurring right this moment.

Lorena Bathey

#7. And then they walk away together, out of the allotted grooves of their afternoons and into the thickening shadows of evening, into the dim, liminal place where on path is taken, and another missed.

Laura Barnett

#8. Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#9. In the time it takes to say 'now,' now is already over. It's already 'then.' 'Then' is the opposite of 'now.' So saying 'now' obliterates its meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't.

Ruth Ozeki

#10. So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

Albert Ellis

#11. Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Thomas A. Edison

#12. Sometimes the world we live in is a truly weird place.

Stephen King