love quotes

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

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.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

I dote on his very absence.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

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.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

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.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

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

I always wanted to be loved.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

My wife is already in Heaven.

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.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I always wanted a family.

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

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

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I love life because what more is there?

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

God to me is love.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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?

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.