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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Happiness
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Morality
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Love is repaid by love alone!
Mother Teresa1910–1997
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can’t: and are proud of our impotence, too.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 6.
As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 40.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XIIIIn context
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XVIIn context
- Comedy
- Marriage
You must get your living by loving.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), pp. 486–7
- Work
God help the man who won’t marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
BTBen Tillett1860–1943
- Marriage
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973Letter to his son Michael (March 1941)
- Marriage