Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
I love black and white and very simple and classic clothes.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
I don’t think I’ve had love at first sight. But, I’ve definitely had moments where I’ve seen a person, and I’m like, ‘Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.’
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
When my, British-Church of England mother married my, Canadian-Jewish Father, the deal was that she would embrace Judaism, but wouldn’t give up her Christmas tree. So, I grew up with Christmas every year. I loved it then and I love it now.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it’s happened to me.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
