It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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.
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
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.
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.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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.
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.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
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.
I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
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 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.
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.
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.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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.
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.
At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.