Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

I like to let things breathe.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.