Livresse De Lamour Quotes

Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process. ~ Etienne De L'Amour

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.) ~ Charles De Leusse

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre) ~ Charles De Leusse

Let me leave you with a positive thought. William Shakespeare once wrote: "The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." They call this the Hidden Economy and it is not based on greed or love of money, but on unconditional, selfless, boundless and unstinting Love. ~ Etienne De L'Amour

You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen to be one of those holding the pen, that's all. ~ Etienne De L'Amour

Love is tears of joy, this is the baptism of fingers. (L'amour, c'est larme de joie, - C'est le baptême des doigts) ~ Charles De Leusse

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
[Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.] ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. ~ Louis L'Amour

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art. ~ Honore De Balzac

You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are millions of people out there, just like you and me, with their thumb on the self-destruct button. ~ Etienne De L'Amour

He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped from a secure mental hospital. ~ Etienne De L'Amour

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality. ~ Etienne De L'Amour

Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.) ~ Charles De Leusse

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

I was genuinely in love with Mme. de Guermantes. The greatest happiness that I could have asked of God would have been that He should overwhelm her under every imaginable calamity, and that ruined, despised, stripped of all the privileges that divided her from me, having no longer any home of her own or people who would condescend to speak to her, she should come to me for refuge. I imagined her doing so. ~ Marcel Proust

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. ~ Julien Offray De La Mettrie

Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels. ~ Ines De La Fressange

People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It's too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it's foolishness to him. But for those who are in Christ, it's a magnificent journey of simplicity. Depth, richness, but simplicity. It's the fact that the natural man can't believe that life with Christ is so simple that cause the great "complexity" argument. Stop, take a breath, and believe that it's as simple as it appears. ~ Alan De Jager

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason. ~ Alain De Botton

Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Sunset at Seminyak
Barefoot, the well heeled expats drift
from the beach into mauve chaise lounges
wearing trendy Thai fisherman pants
and billowing knock-off Armani linens.
They dis the local touts, piss and moan
about the tawdry and 'so yesterday'.
Devout Splenglerians, they spout
the rise and fall of fashion
every fucking fifteen minutes.
Exhaling the outlaw plumes of
Hoyo de Monterrey Churchills,
they drown in their Courvoisier
and Hennessey Privilege
as the unfashionable sun
plunges divinely into the Bali Strait
unnoticed. ~ Beryl Dov

When you move as openness and softness of heart you're moving in this life within your self in the same way that your being is. When you move as openness and softness of heart, you are all the way into the surface moving and growing, developing as oneness. ~ John De Ruiter

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A married man with a family will do anything for money. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting ... every generation must start again afresh. ~ Maurice De Vlaminck

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself. ~ Anthony De Mello

As Uncle Tarquin de Luce once wrote in the margin of one of his many notebooks of chemical experiments: Consider also the container. ~ Alan Bradley

It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded... ~ Alain De Botton

The evolution in each of us isn't separate from each other. ~ John De Ruiter

Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father's old friends. So ~ Anthony Trollope

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me. ~ Jan De Bont

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel ~ Alfred De Vigny

I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem. ~ Augusto De Luca

Anyway, I learned an important lesson from all of this: While gun ownership is
morally reprehensible in the civilized world, firepower is more or less
de rigeur in a zombie apocalypse. ~ John Green

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to. ~ Michel De Montaigne

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true. ~ Alain De Botton

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. ~ Honore De Balzac

We all pretend things sometimes. And sometimes we leave thing too late. ~ Marianne De Pierres

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire? ~ Guy De Maupassant

A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, and not too deep,
And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.
Up shone May, like gold, and soon
Green as an arbour grew leafy June.
And now all summer she sits and sews
Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,
Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,
Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;
Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;
Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;
Like Oberon's meadows her garden is
Drowsy from dawn to dusk with bees.
Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs,
And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;
And all she has is all she needs --
A poor Old Widow in her weeds. ~ Walter De La Mare

Because of this, I feel I am performing a work of love, not of hostility. I do not aim to accuse the contemporary world and monasticism but to enrich the world with the values that monasticism can and should contribute to it. Our world needs monks who are different from itself. Please God, this essay will help them to sing more clearly and beautifully the part they have to sing in the immense symphony of the present time.
To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience
(prologue) ~ Adalbert De Vogue

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

You cannot have a perfect mind. You can have a perfect heart. ~ John De Ruiter