Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
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.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
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.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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.
I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
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!
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!
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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.
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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.
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.
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.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
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 love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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.
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.