"Love attracts love, mine rushes forth unto Thee, it would fain fill up the abyss which attracts it; but alas! it is not even as one drop of dew lost in the Ocean. To love Thee as Thou lovest me I must borrow Thy very Love - then only, can I find rest." — Therese of Lisieux, French nun, born 1873
"Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love." — Therese of Lisieux, French nun, born 1873
"It's true, I suffer a great deal--but do I suffer well? That is the question." — Therese of Lisieux, French nun, born 1873
"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness." — Therese of Lisieux, French nun, born 1873
"Some days I pray for Silence, Some days I pray for Soul, Some days I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll." — Meat Loaf, American musician, born 1947
"A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot." — Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, born 1927
"It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude." — Carole Lombard, American actress, born 1908
"When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me." — Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader, born 1902
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born 1807
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born 1807
"Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don’t grasp anything. We don’t try to control anything. We just sit." — John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic, born 1931
"If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else." — Jennifer Lopez, American singer, born 1969
"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." — Frederico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, born 1898
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." — Frederico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, born 1898