Alberto Korda Quotes

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

I will either be famous or infamous.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I see how loving my parents are toward each other, toward my family and toward me. And that's just a glimpse of Jesus' love for us.

Any rumor you can think of, I've been a part of it.

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

You've got to give away what you love.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.