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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Money
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 22:37–40 (KJV)In context
- God
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 10:9 (KJV)In context
- God
- Marriage
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
John of the Cross1542–1591Spiritual Canticle, Notes to the Stanzas
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
John of the Cross1542–1591The Sayings of Light and Love
I think I’m a little bit heartbroken all the time, even when I’m in a happy relationship. I don’t do casual very well, and my feelings, even the good ones, get so intense that they hurt.
Dakota Johnsonborn 1989Haskell, Rob (January 13, 2017). “Fifty Shades’s Dakota Johnson on Sex, Fame, and Building a Career on Her Own Terms”
- Emotion
A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
- Marriage
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVI
- Marriage
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
- Hope
- Marriage
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.
FJFranklin D. Jones1879–1967
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Song: To Celia (1616)In context
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster (1983)
- Virtue
But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life.
—What? says Alf.
—Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context
- History
Love loves to love love.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context