Theme

Love

Desire, marriage, friendship that becomes devotion, and the love that tells the truth. The canon keeps love specific, never as a slogan.

1. We must love one another or die.W. H. AudenSeptember 1, 1939
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane AustenPride and Prejudice
3. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.James BaldwinThe Fire Next Time
4. Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule.The DhammapadaDhammapada
5. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets from the Portuguese
6. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.Emily BrontëWuthering Heights
7. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor HugoLes Misérables
8. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.Martin Luther King Jr.Address at the March on Washington
9. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.The Gospel of MatthewThe Gospel of Matthew
10. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.Pablo NerudaEvery Day You Play
11. Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.Dorothy ParkerEnough Rope
12. The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.Blaise PascalPensées
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.Paul the ApostleThe First Letter to the Corinthians
14. Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.Jalal al-Din RumiMasnavi
15. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Little Prince
16. He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking.SapphoFragment 31
17. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.William ShakespeareSonnet 116
18. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.William ShakespeareSonnet 18
19. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina
20. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.W. B. YeatsHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

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