“Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.” LoveSelfDesireInterestVisionFortuneCastsIllStrangerWorldlySelf InterestHinderWorldly Desires Author:Thomas a Kempis
“Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.” PeopleLoveHumansCharacterFeelingsInterestGreat LoveRenoir Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.” MenLoveHumansHeartReasonEarthInterestHuman BeingsAnswersLove IsPleasureMillionsSunHugeThousandWeaponsWinterBlowConquerGiantsRebelClayMeltingReservedBeamSlumberHardenedOmnipotenceAgainst Love Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.” MenLoveKindChildrenTwoMotherInterestCreaturesPainfulVainExcitementDelusionProvidenceKinds Of Love Author:Octave Feuillet
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.” LoveHumansHelpingFeelingsInterestSimplePleasureVisionLaysEnthusiasmLove LifeMatureReviewsVividSpringtimeBrightnessRelishPropheticFreshnessLovelinessFuture LifeSimple Pleasures Author:William Ellery Channing
“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.” MenWorldWayLoveStatesPastPeaceInterestMaterialsAmbitionFlowInspirational LoveSpiritual WisdomTurmoilCleansingMateriality Author:Sai Baba