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Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- Fear
- God
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality
- God
You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII1894–1972Abdication broadcast (11 December 1936)
- Marriage
- Responsibility
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein1879–1955
The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, ch. xIn context
- Anger
- Envy
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return …
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Pride
It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIIn context
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.
Elizabeth I of England1533–1603The Golden Speech (1601)
- Leadership
There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel: I mean your love.
Elizabeth I of England1533–1603The Golden Speech (1601)
- Leadership
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Representative Men (1850)
- Marriage
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25
- Wisdom
Alas, the Love that falleth like a flood,
Strong-winged and transitory:
Why praise ye him? What beareth he of good
To man, or glory?
Yet Love there is that moves in gentleness,
Heart-filling, sweetest of all powers that bless.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 1, spoken by ChorusIn context
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!
Richard Feynman1918–1988Note to the mother of Marcus Chown, who had admired the profile of Feynman presented in the BBC TV Horizon program “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” (1981)
- Science