Sydney J. Harris: Quotes about love

“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better…”

Sydney J. Harris

Love , Hate , Change , Time

“All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.”

Sydney J. Harris

"Love and Its Loveless Counterfeits"
Strictly Personal (1953)
Context: The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.

Love , Hate , Fear , Jealousy

“The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration.”

Sydney J. Harris

"Love and Its Loveless Counterfeits"
Strictly Personal (1953)
Context: The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.

Love , Hate

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."”

Sydney J. Harris

Pieces of Eight (1982)
Source: Pieces Of Eight

Love , Hate , World

“Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.”

Sydney J. Harris

Pieces of Eight (1982)

Love , Personality , Happiness