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The forward-directed attitudes, I think, are these: curiosity, ambition, love, courage, hunger, duty, rage. They may be backward-formed, but they are forward directed, moving toward the future. Fear, too, of course, is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Julio Cortázar

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.