Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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 cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I always wanted a family.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

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

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Women don’t try to use me.

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’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

My friends are my estate.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

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