3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.
3 December 2020 Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
3 December 2020 Mortimer Adler When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
3 December 2020 Albert Ellis Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
3 December 2020 Lucille Ball Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
3 December 2020 Igor Stravinsky Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
3 December 2020 Buddha You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
3 December 2020 Judy Garland For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
3 December 2020 Og Mandino I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
3 December 2020 George Edward Moore The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.