To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.
Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.
I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.
To put yourself in another’s place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can’t help it.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
I love history… everything is inspired by history, so that’s why I love vintage and antiques.
Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Remember that you don’t choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
I love showcasing my talents – not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that’s all you can really ask for. I didn’t get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
You have to know that as long as you love who you are – your morals, your values, that type of stuff – you’re OK.
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn’t? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There’s nobody like him. He’s unique, and just… way out cool.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.