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- No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
- Krishnamurti
- Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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