Pastoral Resources

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.