“I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.”
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Maya Angelou 247
American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”
Source: La Mécanique du cœur
Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Context: If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 6
An American Dream (1965)
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
Source: age 12 http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
“Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”
“When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.”
Source: Candy