I love the sea.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

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

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

In the real world, children love me.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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 love those who yearn for the impossible.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

God to me is love.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

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

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.