270+ Timeless Love Quotes to Inspire Passion, Trust, and Deep Connections

Love is the most profound and transformative force in life. It nurtures connection, fosters understanding, and gives meaning to our existence. Love transcends boundaries, embracing imperfection and teaching us compassion and empathy. It is both a source of great joy and a path to resilience, helping us navigate challenges with strength and grace. Whether romantic, platonic, or unconditional, love reminds us of our shared humanity and the beauty of giving and receiving without expectation.

1. “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
2. “I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
3. “It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.”
4. “The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.”
5. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
6. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
7. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
8. “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
9. “At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
10. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
11. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
12. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
13. “It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
14. “Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies—or else? The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”
15. “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
16. “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
17. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
18. “People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
19. “Love is a better teacher than duty.”
20. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
21. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”
22. “I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
23. “Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.”
24. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
25. “First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
26. “Love can do much, but duty more.”
27. “To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
28. “We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”
29. “If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
30. “Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
31. “There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
32. “We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
33. “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
34. “Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.”
35. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
36. “For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.”
37. “Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
38. “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”
39. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
40. “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
41. “Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”
42. “If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
43. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
44. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
45. “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
46. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
47. “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”
48. “Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
49. “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.”
50. “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
51. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
52. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
53. “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
54. “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”
55. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
56. “One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
57. “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
58. “To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.”
59. “A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.”
60. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
61. “A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
62. “The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
63. “It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
64. “Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
65. “This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
66. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
67. “There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
68. “Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?”
69. “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
70. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
71. “Love is not consolation. It is light.”
72. “What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?”
73. “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
74. “Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
75. “Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”
76. “I love those who do not know how to live for today.”
77. “This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
78. “Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
79. “For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
80. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
81. “No one loves the man whom he fears.”
82. “Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”
83. “The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.”
84. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
85. “Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
86. “To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”
87. “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
88. “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
89. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
90. “There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath.”
91. “No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
92. “Love is a serious mental disease.”
93. “I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.”
94. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
95. “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
96. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
97. “For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
98. “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?”
99. “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
100. “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.”
101. “All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
102. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.”
103. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
104. “He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
105. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
106. “Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
107. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
108. “The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
109. “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
110. “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
111. “Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”
112. “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
113. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
114. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
115. “There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.”
116. “There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.”
117. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
118. “Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.”
119. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
120. “He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.”
121. “If music be the food of love, play on.”
122. “Speak low, if you speak love.”
123. “Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
124. “They do not love that do not show their love.”
125. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
126. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”
127. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
128. “The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
129. “And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.”
130. “If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
131. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
132. “What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
133. “Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
134. “To love is to act.”
135. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
136. “Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”
137. “The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.”
138. “Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
139. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
140. “Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
141. “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
142. “I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
143. “Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
144. “Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.”
145. “The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
146. “I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.”
147. “Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.”
148. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
149. “Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.”
150. “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
151. “To love beauty is to see light.”
152. “Who, being loved, is poor?”
153. “Women are made to be loved, not understood.”
154. “Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
155. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
156. “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
157. “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
158. “No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”
159. “A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
160. “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
161. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
162. “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
163. “Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.”
164. “I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
165. “Those whom the gods love grow young.”
166. “I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.”
167. “When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
168. “Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”
169. “Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.”
170. “This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.”
171. “It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
172. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
173. “There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
174. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
175. “The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
176. “One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”
177. “To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
178. “It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
179. “It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.”
180. “Because of a great love, one is courageous.”
181. “If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
182. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
183. “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
184. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
185. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
186. “We do not judge the people we love.”
187. “O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”
188. “God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.”
189. “I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.”
190. “Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.”
191. “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
192. “Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
193. “How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.”
194. “Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
195. “Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.”
196. “The things that we love tell us what we are.”
197. “Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.”
198. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
199. “But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”
200. “Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
201. “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
202. “Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
203. “To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”
204. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
205. “I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.”
206. “I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.”
207. “I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.”
208. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
209. “There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”
210. “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
211. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
212. “Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
213. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
214. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
215. “To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
216. “Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.”
217. “One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
218. “It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
219. “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
220. “When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
221. “Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
222. “There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
223. “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
224. “I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.”
225. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
226. “You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”
227. “This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
228. “Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.”
229. “Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
230. “Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
231. “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
232. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
233. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
234. “Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.”
235. “The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.”
236. “My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.”
237. “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
238. “In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
239. “Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
240. “A conqueror is always a lover of peace.”
241. “Great loves too must be endured.”
242. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
243. “The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
244. “To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”
245. “Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”
246. “If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.”
247. “Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.”
248. “Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.”
249. “Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.”
250. “Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
251. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
252. “It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.”
253. “My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”
254. “Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
255. “If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”
256. “Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”
257. “I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.”
258. “I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.”
259. “Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.”
260. “Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
261. “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
262. “Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?”
263. “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.”
264. “Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
265. “Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”
266. “Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
267. “Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”
268. “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
269. “Where there is love there is life.”
270. “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
271. “Where love is, there God is also.”
272. “Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”
273. “I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”