The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
– Stephen Ambrose
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
– Robertson Davies
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
– George Bernard Shaw
The pleasure of love is in loving.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
– La Rochefoucauld
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
– John Randolph
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
– Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
– Martha Beck
The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them.
– Miles Davis, Film: The Miles Davis Story
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
– Elbert Hubbard
The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
– Don Rose
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
– Eric Hoffer
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
– Lawrence George Durrell
The road to true love never did run smooth.
– Shakespeare
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
– Oprah Winfrey
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
– Robin Williams
The sage said, 'The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love.' That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them you just forget.
– Hazrat Inayat Khan
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
– Dejan Stojanovic
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
– Confucius
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
– Deepak Chopra
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
– Helen Hayes
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
– Logan Pearsall Smith
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
