Quotes about "Love & Romance"

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. ”

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. ”

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ”

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. ”

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. ”

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ”

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine. ”

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ”

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ”

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. ”