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

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

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

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

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

Where love is, there God is also.

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.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

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.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

We will always be a family. Always.

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

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Intimates are predestined.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.