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.
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.
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 and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is 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.
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
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.
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.
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.
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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?