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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world.
Wayne Dyer1940–2015
Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“Cliffrose and Bayonets”, p. 26
- Freedom
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
Edward Abbey1927–1989Down the River (1982)
- Life & Death
You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Abigail Adams (28 April 1776)
When love once pleas admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene i
- Women
When love’s well-timed ‘tis not a fault of love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
- Beauty
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868), Ch. 40: The Valley Of The ShadowIn context
- Life & Death
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXIVIn context
- Beauty
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
- Marriage
In a competition of love we’ll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xxiv
I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xix
He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi)
- God