Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.
—F. Enzio Busche (1930–2020) Mormon Church Leader
No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
—Unknown
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
—Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American Singer-Songwriter
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Stimulate the heart of love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
—Robert Burton (1577–1640) English Scholar, Clergyman
The superior man examines his heart, that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause for dissatisfaction with himself. That wherein the superior man cannot be equaled is simply this — his work which other men cannot see.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
I adore him? I have never been so happy. I have real love.
—Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–97) English Royal, Humanitarian, Peace Activist
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
—Bess Myerson (1924–2014) American Model, Civil Rights Activist
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — “But these impulses may be from below, not from above”. I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil”. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Love inspired by unworthy motives dies when those motives disappear.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Critic
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
—Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Philosopher, Musician, Physician
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
I never met a man I didn’t like.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk.
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.
—Joseph-Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur (1756–1805) French Military Officer, Dramatist
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
—Anita Brookner (1928–2016) English Novelist, Art Historian
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
—John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Today’s Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
d. all of the above.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
—Robert Brault
Love lessens woman’s delicacy, and increases man’s.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Philosopher
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