"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina | Love | 10 bookmarks

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William | Love | 19 bookmarks

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William | Love | 29 bookmarks

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur | Love | 52 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 39 bookmarks

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. | Love | 49 bookmarks

"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich | Love | 109 bookmarks

"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack | Passion | 18 bookmarks

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. | Youth | 22 bookmarks

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

Arendt, Hannah | Hypocrisy | 1 bookmarks