"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William | Love | 18 bookmarks

"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."

Traherne, Thomas | Gratitude | 6 bookmarks

"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."

Drummond, Henry | Love | 5 bookmarks

"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Love | 15 bookmarks

"Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

Adler, Felix | Patriotism | 1 bookmarks

"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Love | 11 bookmarks

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor | Self-love | 22 bookmarks

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. | Infatuation | 17 bookmarks

"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E | Happiness | 27 bookmarks

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love."

Magdenburg, Mechthild of | Soul | 8 bookmarks