I’ve always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book – which would be anything from a biography to a classic – to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That’s what I continue to love about the work.
To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.
I feel like I ask my fans to love themselves a lot, and and I do want people to love themselves. That comes from personal experience.
I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that’s just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it’s so romantic, and it’s a great feeling.
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I’d give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I’d love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.
To do this job, you really have to love what you’re doing.
In my heart, I really don’t care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that’s the important thing here.
When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
We’re only here to love God and each other. I’m not saying I’ve never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you’ve got to forgive and move on.
I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren’t so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.
You have to love yourself or you’ll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
What I am is how I came out. No one’s perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
I used to love politics. I can’t say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They’re all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It’s all about love. You know, how I’m loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.
If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.
I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.
The way to know life is to love many things.
You’ve got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
Moms and dads don’t last forever. If you’ve got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that’s not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.
After a while in marriage, it doesn’t work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.
To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that’s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
Being transgender isn’t a medical transition. It’s a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.
Life’s too short. Don’t be afraid to love and then keep loving and keep loving and doing more loving.
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
What we need is for people to realize – ‘I want to raise my kid. I want to go back and get my three kids. I want to take on that responsibility. I want to love my children.’
Everybody’s looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
I used to love Bach.
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I’ve found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.
I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, ‘Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?’ It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.
If you’re going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you’re going to lose them. It’s helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it’s just me and my little man, that’s the best time I’ve ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.
