“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Last update Nov. 2, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. photo
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 107
United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

Related quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes photo

“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician

A Mortal Antipathy (1885) This statement is often misquoted as "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness".

Sri Aurobindo photo

“Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti

Rabindranath Tagore photo

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

88
Stray Birds (1916)

Albert Schweitzer photo

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Maimónides photo

“This book will then be a key admitting to places the gates of which would otherwise be closed. When the gates are opened and men enter, their souls will enjoy repose, their eyes will be gratified, and even their bodies, after all toil and labour, will be refreshed.”

Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed

Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Introduction
Context: Having concluded these introductory remarks I proceed to examine those expressions, to the true meaning of which, as apparent from the context, it is necessary to direct your attention. This book will then be a key admitting to places the gates of which would otherwise be closed. When the gates are opened and men enter, their souls will enjoy repose, their eyes will be gratified, and even their bodies, after all toil and labour, will be refreshed.

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“Love is the only key to open the doors of paradise.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

““Success Is Not The Key To Happiness, Happiness Is The Key To Success; If You Love What You Are Doing, You Will Be Successful”
— Alireza Kohany”

Alireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur

Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/What_Is_E_Commerce/PkPhDwAAQBAJ

“The light microscope opened the first gate to microcosm. The electron microscope opened the second gate to microcosm. What will we find opening the third gate?”

Ernst Ruska (1906–1988) German physicist

Das Lichtmikroskop öffnete das erste Tor zum Mikrokosmos. Das Elektronenmikroskop öffnete das zweite Tor zum Mikrokosmos. Was werden wir finden wenn wir das dritte Tor öffnen?
as quoted by Nan Yao, director of the Imaging and Analysis Center at the Princeton Materials Institute, in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, February 26, 2001, Vol. 90, No. 18 http://www.princeton.edu/~iac/pwb2_26b.html.

Sara Teasdale photo

“But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.”

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet

"Debt"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Related topics