I love life because what more is there?

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

God to me is love.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

They do not love that do not show their love.

All you need is love.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

In the real world, children love me.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.