As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Where there is love there is life.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

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

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

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

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

My three children have brought me great joy.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.