“And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.”
More from Alice Walker on Love
“You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.”
“Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.”
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
“I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”