Roberto Benigni Quotes

If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

Love to me has no bounds.

No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.

I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better.