... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
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... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise.
This is how it works _x000D_ You peer inside yourself _x000D_ You take the things you like _x000D_ And try to love the things you took _x000D_ And then you take that love you made _x000D_ And stick it into some _x000D_ Someone else's heart _x000D_ Pumping someone else's blood.
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.
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