To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Madame Swetchine
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Mary S. Calderone
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
J.B. Priestley
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.
A. F. Shaw
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887)
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
G.K. Chesterton
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richter
German author (1763 - 1825)
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!
Lewis Carroll
English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
US author & poet (1928 - )
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
Swedish mystic & scientist (1688 - 1772)
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
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Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Ed Howe
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
John Paul Richter