"You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these."

Francis, Clarence | Character | 5 bookmarks

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor | Self-love | 24 bookmarks

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Love | 16 bookmarks

"Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest."

Dyke, Henry Van | Gratitude | 5 bookmarks

"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."

Duncan, Isadora | Love | 2 bookmarks

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. | Love | 40 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 39 bookmarks

"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich | Love | 109 bookmarks

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William | Love | 29 bookmarks

"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."

LeMond, Greg | Struggle | 3 bookmarks