I like getting married but I don't like being married.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time remembering to love to honor to respect. It is a practice a discipline worthy of every moment.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old the incurable the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
I love being black in America and especially being black in Hollywood.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow being repressed for so many millennia they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Guilt for being rich and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself love being outdoors love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees flowers the sky.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Even the rich are hungry for love for being cared for for being wanted for having someone to call their own.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
To love for the sake of being loved is human but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
I love that feeling of being in love the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.