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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
- Responsibility
Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book VI, Chapter 3: Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
- Children
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Witness Tree (1942)
- Life & Death
Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Amores (Love Affairs), Book I; ix, 46
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus84–54 BCLXX, lines 3–4
- Women
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Plague (1947)
- Virtue
She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,
Which terminated all.
Lord Byron1788–1824The Dream (1816)
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles1930–2004Brother Ray: Ray Charles’ Own Story (1978), p. 239
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
- Morality
There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper,
irresistible⁠—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, XIV. 216–217 (tr. Robert Fagles); Aphrodite’s embroidered band
Love like Ruth’s, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 21