love

"My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct."

"God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease."

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor."

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

"Love is an art. Mine could fill a museum the size of your heart."

"The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul."

"love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"

"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that."

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."

"I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good."

"It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans."

"If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs)."

"I often wear camouflaged pants so when I walk I look like a floating torso. I love with the same air of mystery."

"There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?"