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!
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.
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.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
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.
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.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow 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.