love quotes and phrases

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~Henry Louis Mencken



When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale



I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino



I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. ~Oscar Wilde



There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. ~Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History



When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen



The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey



I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982



Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942



It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ~Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne



How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967



Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon



Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb



Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown



It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert



You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter



Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover