There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
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.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
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.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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 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.
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.
If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
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.
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 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.
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.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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.