My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

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.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

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

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

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

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

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

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

He who hath many friends hath none.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

In the real world, children love me.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

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

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.