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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

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.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

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

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

I was adored once too.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.