Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

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.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

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

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

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

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

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

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.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.