To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

When you’re soaring through the air, I’ll be your solid ground. Take every chance you dare, I’ll still be there when you come back down.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Love is a noble act of self-giving; the more you love, the more you lose a part of you, yet you do not become less of who you are, but you end up complete.

Life keeps testing our love with tragedies and issues constantly haunting us. We cannot hide from them, neither can we run; facing them is the only option.

To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing it touches and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Dust if you must, but there is not much time,with rivers to swim and mountains to climb!Music to hear, and books to read,friends to cherish and life to lead.

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.