There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

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.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

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

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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

Farewell, fair cruelty.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Love is a serious mental disease.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

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

The human heart is the same the world over.

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

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.