Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Love is a state of being.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

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.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

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

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Marriage is the death of hope.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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

Where thou art, that is home.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

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.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

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.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

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.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.