Quotes about Love

To love a place you must participate in the community and give back something in return for all you receive. I believe I have done that. There are many things I admire about the United States and others I would like to change, but isn't that always true? A country, like a husband, is always open to improvement.

I fell in love with my country because of the stories my grandfather told me and because of our travels together through the south. He taught me history and geography, showed me maps, made me read Chilean writers, corrected my grammar and handwriting. As a teacher, he was short on patience but long on severity; my errors made him red with anger, but if he was content with my work he would reward me with a wedge of Camembert cheese

But do you know what I'm most grateful for? Love. That has marked me more than anything else. I was incredibly lucky to have Roser. She'll always be the love of my life. Thanks to her I have Marcel. Being a father has also been essential for me; it's allowed me to keep faith in what's best in the human condition.

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.