#to love

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#love #may #mercy #might #minds

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#capacity #circumstances #either #little #love

I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#become #broadway #bullets #director #enjoyed

Trust is the first step to love. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#first step #love #step #to love #trust

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#grew #i #love #loved #stage

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#curiosity #easily #get #give #imagination

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#angelic #being #human #loved #loving

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. ↗

— James Laughlin

#cam #case #certainly #deal #formative

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#healthy #instinct #like #live #love

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous