Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
– Anton Chekhov
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
– Umberto Eco
Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.
– West African proverb
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
– Frank Moore Colby
Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
– Michio Kushi
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
– Charles Fox
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
– William E. Channing
Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
– Marion Garretty
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
– Anonymous
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
– C. S. Lewis, First things First
Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
– Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
– Alexandre Dumas
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
– Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness!..
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
– Anita Brookner
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
– David McCullough
Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.
– Chekov of Tolstoy
Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
– The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done!
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.
– Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.
– Fawn M. Brodie
Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.
– Buddhist
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
– Dr. Karl A. Menninger
