" In love there are things — bodies and words. "

Joyce Carol Oates US author (1938 – )

" I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. "

Thomas Love Peacock

" I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. "

W. L. George

" I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it. "

Christian Longe

" Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. "

Charles Fox English orator & politician (1749 – 1806)

" Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. "

John Gay English dramatist, librettist, & poet (1685 – 1732)

" Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. "

Josh Billings US Humorist (1818 – 1885)

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. "

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

" True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. "

Jim Bishop

" Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. "

Gloria Steinem US feminist (1934 – )

" Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. "

Dr. Martin Luther King

" O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day! "

William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, Act 1 scene 3 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile – sweet fundamental things such as love. "

Laura Ingalls Wilder

" In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. "

Andre Maurois French author (1885 – 1967)

" The absence of love is the most abject pain. "

Herr Lipp

" To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. "

Karl von Bonstetten

" Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. "

Francois Sagan

" Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence. "

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

" Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. "

Amelia Burr

" Whom the gods love dies young. "

Menander, The Double Deceiver Greek comic dramatist (342 BC – 292 BC)

" Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. "

Rabbi Julius Gordon

" It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. "

W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)

" Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. "

W.H. Auden

" Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. "

Lewis Mumford US architect & sociologist (1895 – 1990)

" Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. "

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

" Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me. "

West African proverb

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