Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

God to me is love.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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.