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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

It’s not possible to stop love.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

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

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I read the Bible every day.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

The heart is forever inexperienced.