Marriage is the death of hope.

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?

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I do my job like I breathe.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

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

I was adored once too.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

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

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Where there is love there is life.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.