12. “Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.”
John Selden – pleasure and love can be obtained in many different ways.

13. “Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.”
Proverb – it is good to invest in long term pleasures to secure love.

14. “Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson – pleasure is what we live for when we are seeking a loving life.

15. “There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Lord Byron – when we evaluate what pleasure is we think in terms of love.

16. “There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”
Mary Little – being lazy is a pleasure and so is having lots of options. We love being this relaxed.

17. “Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.”
Plato – we can decide between good pleasures that lead to love and destructive pleasure.

18. “Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
Oscar Wilde – lots of loving feelings come from being in a pleasured state.

19. “If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”
Samuel Johnson – life is full of ups and downs and we seeking loving moments which we appreciate when times are tough.

20. “That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Harold J. Smith – the best things in life are free, and pleasure can be too which leads to a feeling of love, especially when it is not paid for.

21. “Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.”
Josh Billings – we can give in to pleasure that doesn’t make us happy, but this is not a good way to get love into your life.

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1. “He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater – good actions can be viewed as loving and therefore pleasurable.

2. “Everyone is dragged on by their favourite pleasure.”
Virgil – you could say people are motivated to do the things they love the most.

3. “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”
John D. Rockefeller – pleasures lead to lots of loving experience and is desired.

4. “As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord’s name.”
Sri Sarada Devi – religious people view the union with God as the ultimate source of love and pleasure.

5. “Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”
Douglas William Jerrold – if we find pleasure in a morally debatable action, we are convinced we are doing the most loving thing by society and this gives us pleasure.

6. “So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.”
Seneca – do not deny that things make you happy and lead to experiences that are loving.

7. “Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favour of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.”
Roland Barthes – many would agree that the goal of someone in love is to derive pleasure from it and that is a higher good.

8. “Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”
Voltaire – love and the attainment of it through pleasurable experience is our goal.

9. “For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.”
Nathaniel Branden –

10. “The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.”
Madame De Lambert – without pleasure in our lives we are not sure if we have love at all.

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1. “Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.” Mark Twain – when you experience pain a debt of love is owed.

2. “Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.”
Samuel Johnson – similarly pain delivered by unreasonable and unsuitable cost results in a delivery of pleasure.

3. “The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.” Thomas Jefferson – navigate your way around painful times to ensure you life is filled with love.

4. “Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!” Seneca – pain is only temporary and not something to fear if you are a loving person.

5. “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]” Bible – In the end there will be no more pain, probably because we’ll all be dead. Not sure a loving person should wait for that!

6. “It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone — but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” Anonymous – truly loving people give everyone else loads of chances before realising that to continue to love some people only causes you more pain.

7. “Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” Mary Tyler Moore – Pain is not something to be encouraged, it is to be discouraged if we are to achieve more love in our lives.

8. “The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.” Henry Ward Beecher – If you love your pain you will never be free of it.

9. “There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer –committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.” George Eliot – Noiseless pain passes through the human ear and lodges itself in the heart. To expel this we need love and unity, albeit in silence.

10. “The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.” Marcus Tullius Cicero – the motivation to injure is much stronger than the ability of individuals to defend themselves against it. This is what causes long term problems with those who desire only love, believing this.

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2. “An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – there’s something romantic about sleeping in.

3. “A good husband is healthy and absent.”
Japanese Proverb – hard working husbands are seen to be frequently absent, earning a living and expressing their love for their wives by providing for them.

4. “You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
Charlotte Bronte – some women with low self esteem fall in love easily with future husbands.

5. “You know I won’t turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.”
William Hogarth – strong men are loved as husbands.

6. “I think every woman’s entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”
Adela Rogers St. Johns – many women get divorced but that shouldn’t stop her finding love again.

7. “Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.”
Rose Pastor Stokes – you never know what a husband will be like or how loving until you are married.

8. “Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.”
Mary Buckley – women must be diplomatic to love a husband.

9. “The husbands of beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.”
Oscar Wilde – beautiful women are much sought after and the husbands that get them are very lucky.

10. “Husbands never become good, they merely become proficient.”
H L Mencken – A loving husband does his best to please his wife.

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“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
Jewish Proverbs – the bond between mothers and children is very special.

“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”
Amos Bronson Alcott – mothers are often responsible for the happiness and welfare of those in their household.

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
Henry Ward Beecher – we look to our mum’s for the right example to set so that we can be loving adults ourselves.

“For that’s what a woman, a mother wants — to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it’s safer for them to be interested in other people’s happiness than to believe in their own.”
Marguerite Duras – mothers always remind us that sacrifice to self is one of the characteristics of giving birth, and there is something to be learned from that.

“Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can’t even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.”
Norman Douglas – some believe that men, who never experienced motherhood are incapable of understanding the implications of it and the wisdom behind it.

“Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe – many of us turn to our mothers when we are in need and find love and solace in that place.

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
Spanish Proverbs – through your mother you can access the greatest charity. Love is within her remit.

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
Germaine Greer – Deny a mother her rightful place and watch the problems multiply as often as her love is denied.

“The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.”
Andrea Dworkin – one way to look at motherhood is to view it as the prime characteristic of women, however this leaves no room to love and appreciate daughters.

“The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infant’s eyes.”
John Keble – a loving mother always has your back.

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“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor. Once a book is published, if you get a copy, you can reuse it and love it over and over.

“We shouldn’t teach great books, we should teach a love of reading.” B. F. Skinner. Once we discover we love to read, education is limitless.

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his are not so new after all.” Abraham Lincoln. There are things learned in books that teach us how to love the truth.

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde. This master of English satire taught us that books are the foundation of loving freedom.

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.” Theodore Parker. Books encourage a love of learning for life.

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you’ve lost a friend.” Paul Sweeney. Good writing can form love between strangers.

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you like nothing else can.” William Feather. Human beings are curious and love resolutions and wisdom that can be gained by educating themselves. No one needs to direct them.

“Wherever they burn books they will also in the end burn human beings.” Caroline Gordon. Some may agree or disagree with the sentiment that we all love a free society.

“These are not books, lumps of useless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.” Gilbert Highet. Authors love to create intimacy with their readers and the most successful books achieve that.

“It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?” James Matthew Barrie. Those who truly love books put into action what they find inside them, and turn action into love.

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1. “Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” Anonymous – Passion translated into prose has a much longer lifespan than words. Love can exist in prose if it takes the form of statement.

2. “This truth on the love of God, origin, meaning and end of the universe and of history was revealed by Jesus Christ, with his word and with his life, especially in his passion, death and resurrection.” Benedict XVI – Christians believe passionately that they are saved by faith and that their savior was the cause of this great love.

3. “I learned from my mom and dad, who didn’t have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do.” Dick Vitale – working with passion can cause a great many beautiful things to happen. Loving work takes time to reflect on this.

4. “The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.” Oscar Wilde – Constancy in all things holds more merit than falling slave to passion, Oscar Wilde seems to say.

5. “To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don’t want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.” Roland Barthes – famous for his treatise on externality, Barthes seems to say that we rely on the outside expression of passion for guidance in our love lives.

6. “I’m very determined and stubborn. There’s a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.” Mary Lou Retton – Many strive to achieve contentment passionately as they seek love.

7. “There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.” Anthony Robbins – you can achieve greatness by putting passionate pressure on yourself.

8. “Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.” Jean Paul – decisions made with passion are often not well thought through.

9. “Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” David Henry Thoreau – If you are doing what you love you can bulldoze your way through passion without question.

10. “Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.” Bishop Robert South – always pause before reacting and in that place there is much wisdom and love.

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We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan – those who understand that man has freewill and therefore the right to agree to law and governance understand the foundation of democracy and love the law.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
Richard Nixon – the legal truth that no man can sit in judgement in his own cause does not apply to the supreme law administrator within a territory. Hopefully, that person loves the law.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favour.
Theodore Roosevelt – those who love the law will cry for justice if it is not forthcoming.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – those who create and legislate our laws love life.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi – The fruit of corruption in law is thwarted by those who respect and love equality.

The law . . . will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations and wanton tempers of men. . . . On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder, to the clamours of the populace.
John Adams – An economist would like to believe the law is deaf to the populace, in order to justify profit and ill gotten gains. Those who love the law and speak its truth to the hearts of men disagree.

Nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Constitution of the USA – unless of course, you are not a citizen of the USA. Then the law of double jeopardy does not apply to you. Visitors to any nation are wise to respect the law of its citizen inhabitants, who will enforce the law to its fullest length if they are subject to a hostile transgression. Those who love the law are those who never yield to terror on their own soil.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
C. S. Lewis – you cannot legislate love, however you can demonstrate the rule of law to those good men who have lost their way somewhat.

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson – the United States sought to shake of shackles of laws that it no longer agreed with. Freewill and fealty to fellow citizens formed a new land, where the love of law was to be upheld, respected, honoured and never, ever, turned away from.

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
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1. “One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.” – Elizabeth I – a wise counsellor is worth more to love’s path than others who advice ignorance.

2. “Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.” – Elizabeth I – Accord is wisdom’s friend. The path to good and the right to decide for others has always been linked to the unity of love with purpose.

3. “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela – the most famous prisoner of our time, Mandela always stuck with the path of wisdom, believing it would bring love to his nation once again.

4. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” – Robert Frost – speaking of the beauty of poetry, he alludes to the warm feeling we receive when we love words of wisdom and recognise their truth.

5. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius – the path of a wise person is not the easiest to tread, but is the path to take if you want love in life and work.

6. “Cleverness is not wisdom.” – Euripides – in 5th century AD, Athenians who could recite Euripides were freed from serving as slaves in the mines. This playwright introduced love into theatre, which had previously featured tragedy exclusively. Love was no longer viewed as folly in Ancient Greece, and Euripides was the first influential voice that championed love as wise, instead of clever wit.

7. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Once your eyes are fixed on progress, there is no stopping you from achieving a better world for all.

8. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes – hounded by the Christian church for his scientific discoveries, Archimedes is now recognised as having done God’s work by the very same establishment that thwarted his endeavours. Despite the blocks to wisdom Archimedes experienced, his determination prevailed against all of the odds.

9. “He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.” – Edgar R Fiedler – Wisdom’s path is always visible, it is written upon our hearts.

10. “If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.” – Lord Salisbury – We must keep ever in mind that wisdom is the one quality that belongs to individual minds, yet when spoken aloud it clamours to be heard at a volume that deafens nations. Love will prevail.

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2. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean – each day is precious as it is important to get the most out of each and every one of them.

3. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand that to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember that anything is possible for those who believe.” Gail Devers – it is important to make a dream a reality by working hard and constantly keeping it in your sight and translating that into daily action.

4. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumblebee, the small child and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential and fight for your dreams.” Ashley Smith – dreams are full of momentum and fast moving reality. In life notice the fullness of beauty and creation and remember you are a part of that.

5. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. His punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde – dreams are similar to claiming a vision for your life, where you know the future because you have a knowledge it will occur.

6. “Dreams are like stars … you can’t touch them but if you follow them they will lead to your destiny.” Space Buddies character Spudnick – who knows what tomorrow brings but if you follow your heart’s desire you just may find out.

7. “Believe in your dreams and they may come true. Believe in yourself and they will come true.” Proverb. Self determination is an admirable quality in all. The more who achieve their dreams, the more wonderful the world.

8. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman – There is nothing more powerful than someone with focus.

9. “I’ll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and my looking back with my eyes closed.” Tony Arata – Dreams are often beset with opposition, and you have to keep positive and be forward looking to achieve them.

10. “You know you are in love when you can’t fall asleep because your reality is better than your dreams.” Dr Seuss – reading this quote from a children’s book inspires many children to achieve love as the most important part of any dream worth acquiring.

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