We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

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.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

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

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

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

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.