Lamman Rucker Quotes

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

We can only learn to love by loving.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.