When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

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

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.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

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

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

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.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.