You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Forget the past.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

We love things we love what they are.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

I dote on his very absence.

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

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

What’s done can’t be undone.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

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

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I always wanted a family.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.