Quotes on Life

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

My doom is, I love thee still._x000D_ _x000D_ Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

We love but while we may;_x000D_ _x000D_ And therefore is my love so large for thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:_x000D_ _x000D_ Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

She is coming, my own, my sweet;_x000D_ _x000D_ Were it ever so airy a tread,_x000D_ _x000D_ My heart would hear her and beat,_x000D_ _x000D_ Were it earth in an earthly bed;_x000D_ _x000D_ My dust would hear her and beat,_x000D_ _x000D_ Had I lain for a century dead;_x000D_ _x000D_ Would start and tremble under her feet,_x000D_ _x000D_ And blossom in purple and red.

When I first saw you, I saw love_x000D_ _x000D_ And the first time you touched me, I felt love_x000D_ _x000D_ And after all this time,_x000D_ _x000D_ You're still the one I love.

God seeks comrades and claims love,_x000D_ _x000D_ The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows._x000D_ _x000D_ Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.