The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
To love is to act.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
But love’s a malady without a cure.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Love and a red rose can’t be hid.
I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don’t.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
I’m very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.
Love, and do what you like.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
Give me love and work – these two only.
You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.
Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It’s funny.
True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
True love lasts forever.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
I am so grateful for all the love and support I’ve had from people around the world.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn’t be its precondition.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.