We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
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We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.
Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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