The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

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.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

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

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

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.

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

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.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

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

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.