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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

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.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

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.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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

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.

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

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

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.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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.

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

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

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.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

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

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I always wanted to be loved.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

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 always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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

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

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