“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Quotes about love
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“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.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“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.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”