One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Your love will last forever, If you do not expect her to walk the same path, But you look in the same direction.
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
In love there are things --- bodies and words.
Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won?t have anything to complain about.
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless?We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action?No action.
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
One must love a cat on its own terms.
Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
We must love one another and die.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!