Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. HeinleinRead
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Yet I was ready for love and joy. I wanted to let go of my pain. I wanted to pursue life instead of holding fast to fantasies of death.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
You fall in love differently when you are young and far from home in a seductive place. You fall in love with the very air you breathe, and the vivid colours and the unbearably sweet sensation of distance and unaccustomedness.
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
Trans people should be able to fall in love and sing love songs too, and have that be just as valid. You turn on the radio and every other song is some guy singing about some girl who broke his heart, or vice versa. And there's not a lot of trans representation with that.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
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