Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.
I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman who, whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they, they have made negro loving a profession.
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.
Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.
I don’t feel less loved or less loving because I’m not married.
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.
I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two. . . Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.
The ideas can come from anywhere; the energy just comes from loving what I do.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.
One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways. ' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.
The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.
I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.