Love

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.” - Sophocles ...

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." - Helen Keller ...

"Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power." - Phyllis Rose ...

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” - Arthur Wing Pinero ...

“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”   August Wilson ...

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." - Baha'u'llah ...

"And did you get what you wanted from this life even so?  I did.  And what did you want?  To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth." - Raymond Carver ...

"Selfishness makes people deaf and dumb: love opens eyes and hearts." - Pope Francis ...

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr ...

"Everywhere, we learn only from those we love." - Johann Wolfgang von Goetlfe ...