Category/Topic Name: Love

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Where there is love there is life.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

They do not love that do not show their love.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

If music be the food of love, play on.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Where love is, there God is also.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

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!

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

One must not trifle with love.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

With our love, we could save the world.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I love life because what more is there?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Love is a hole in the heart.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

People everywhere love Windows.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Love is blind.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Love can do much, but duty more.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

For love is immortality.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

All you need is love.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Ultimately love is everything.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Love is friendship set on fire.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

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.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Love conquers all.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

True love stories never have endings.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Love is the river of life in the world.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

We can only learn to love by loving.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

We do not judge the people we love.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The best proof of love is trust.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I love to hit people. I love to.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Who loves, raves.

It is very easy to love alone.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I love you more than my own skin.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

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

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is a friendship set to music.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.

There are never enough I Love You's.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Love is the only gold.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

Love is the poetry of the senses.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Love is love's reward.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

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

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Love is trembling happiness.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Love is being stupid together.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

One is very crazy when in love.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

All mankind love a lover.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.