Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

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

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

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

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.