“Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Source: Catching Caroline
“Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must not do it.
“War is like love, it always finds a way.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
The Chaplain, in Scene 6, p. 76
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: I’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay?
“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 6