In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.
My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, _x000D_ _x000D_ Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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