love

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

"One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands."

"I hate to lose more than I love to win."

"What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.''Ah, no,' said the King. 'It's only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love."

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

"It's hard to love a woman and do anything."

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."

"You can’t win in love. But if you could, I’d be the clear victor. Vodka is also clear, and I must be drunk."

"It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer."

"I am beginning to understand,"said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

"Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood."