Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
More Quotes by Henry Wheeler Shaw
Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
He that is jealous is not in love.
But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action.
Flowers are love's truest language.
The sincerest love is the love of food.
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
And love of power, is inconsistent with goodness; but quite consistent with the very opposite qualities--pride, cunning, cruelty.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Your charms are irresistible as your will is inexorable. I am jealous of all eyes but my own.
Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.
Love has no better teacher than the occasion.
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
It is not only necessary to love, It is necessary to say so.
Variety is the spice of love.
Love is patient and kind. It isn't jealous and it doesn't sing its own praises, nor is it ever arrogant.
People need love. Life without tenderness and without love is just a mechanism for dry grinding and heartbreaking.
