It’s not possible to stop love.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

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

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

All men hate the nagging.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

In every parting there is an image of death.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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

Really showing love requires more than just words.

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

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.