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- I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
- Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
- Halle Berry
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now.
- S. G. Tallentyre, referring to Voltaire. Often attributed to Voltaire.
- I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
- Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
- I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
- Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?
- Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 05-01-07
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