“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs Primary source“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
— Abraham Lincoln Primary source“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
“The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.”
— T. E. Lawrence Primary source“You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“My God what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“The most beautiful time is the first period of falling in love, when, from every encounter, every glance, one fetches home something new to rejoice over.”
— Søren Kierkegaard Primary source“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Love, cough, and a smoke, can’t well be hid.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once. I have been alone while I was with many girls and that is the way that you can be most lonely. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I am always in love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Good. I go. And if thou dost not love me, I love thee enough for both.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I’m not unfaithful, darling. I’ve plenty of faults but I’m very faithful. You’ll be sick of me I’ll be so faithful.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
— Jack London Primary source“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair”
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte DisputedTogetherness Jealousy Paris Unfaithful Marriage