Quotes on Men

True love's the gift which God has given_x000D_ _x000D_ To man alone beneath the heaven._x000D_ _x000D_ It is the secret sympathy,_x000D_ _x000D_ The silver link, the silken tie,_x000D_ _x000D_ Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ In body and in soul can bind.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

I detect more good than evil in humanity._x000D_ _x000D_ Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,_x000D_ _x000D_ And men grow better as the world grows old.

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

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

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.

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

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky_x000D_ _x000D_ The deer to the wholesome wold;_x000D_ _x000D_ And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,_x000D_ _x000D_ As it was in the days of old.

But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell_x000D_ _x000D_ To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!_x000D_ _x000D_ He prayeth well, who loveth well_x000D_ _x000D_ Both man and bird and beast.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Man cannot call the brimming instant back;_x000D_ _x000D_ Time's an affair of instants spun to days;_x000D_ _x000D_ If man must make an instant gold, or black,_x000D_ _x000D_ Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways._x000D_ _x000D_ Life may be duller for an instant's blaze._x000D_ _x000D_ Life's an affair of instants spun to years,_x000D_ _x000D_ Instants are only cause of all these tears.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?