Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

I always wanted a family.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

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

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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.‘

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

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.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Love is trembling happiness.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

Giving is true having.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.