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!
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
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!
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
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.
My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
I’m very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.
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.
I’m just so happy, and I’m grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.