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Related Topic(s): Happiness; Love

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Related Topic(s): Love

All the passions cause us to commit faults, but love causes us to commit the most ridiculous ones.

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FRANCOIS LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Related Topic(s): Greatness; Love; Power

”One of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Martin Luther King

An American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

Related Topic(s): Love

There are two sorts of constancy in love: One proceeds from our finding continually in our beloved person new motives for our love; and the other proceeds from our making it a point of honor to be constant.

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FRANCOIS LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Related Topic(s): Heart; Love

The mind has its system, which is one of principles and demonstrations; the heart has another. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out systematically the causes of love.

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France - August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.

Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted.

Related Topic(s): Education; Hatred; Love

an educated man is one who has the right loves and hatreds.
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Lin Yutang Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West.

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Related Topic(s): Love

Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
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Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe (c. 26 February 1564 - 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.

A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May 1593. No reason for it was given, though it was thought to be connected to allegations of blasphemy""a manuscript believed to have been written by Marlowe was said to contain "vile heretical conceipts." He was brought before the Privy Council for questioning on 20 May, after which he had to report to them daily. Ten days later, he was stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer. Whether the stabbing was connected to his arrest has never been resolved.

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Related Topic(s): Fight; Glory; Love; Story

It's the same old story, a fight for love and glory, a case of do or die.
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Herman Hupfeld Internet Broadway Database
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Related Topic(s): HABIT; Love; Power

Habit is all powerful, even in love.

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Vauvenargues

Related Topic(s): Ideas; Inspiration; Love; Mentor; Power

I'm jealous of anyone who makes a light bulb flash on in your head.
No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections, There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco, OMRI (Italian: [umˈbÉ›rto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.

Eco has also written academic texts, children's books and many essays. He is founder of the Dipartimento di Comunicazione (Department of Media Studies) at the University of the Republic of San Marino, President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici (Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities), University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010), and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

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Related Topic(s): Creativity; Imagination; Love; Sex

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and fill it with sublimity and exaltation.
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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926)""better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə])""was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.

Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland""settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets""along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.

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Related Topic(s): Love; Peace; Power

When the power of love conquers the love of power then the world will know peace.

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Jimi Hendrix

Related Topic(s): Love; Power; Shadow

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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CARL JUNG

Related Topic(s): Dedication; Love; Obsession

Every question I ask is about you. Every step I take is toward you.

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Rumi

Related Topic(s): Healing; Love; Recovery

I was dead and now I am alive. I was in tears and now I am laughing. The power of love swept over my soul and now I am that eternal power.

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Rumi

Related Topic(s): Kissing; Love

I would love to kiss you.

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Rumi

Related Topic(s): Love; SELF; Unity

I, you, he, she, we.... In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

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Rumi

Related Topic(s): Distraction; Love

If the Beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil. But when living itself becomes the Friend, lovers disappear.

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Rumi

Related Topic(s): Friend; Love; Madness; Stranger; Wisdom

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

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Rumi

Related Topic(s): Heart; Love; Sadness

In this house of water and clay my heart is in ruins. Beloved, do not leave this house else it will crumble to the ground.

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Rumi

 

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