Marge Piercy Quotes

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that.

First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.

My main message is for people to live your life through love. That doesn't necessarily mean through a relationship. It could be your friends, your family, your workplace, even just walking down the street and smiling, saying 'Hi!' Embracing positivity!

Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.