Quotes on Things I Love

I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.