If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.
The Boy and the Nettles A boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
I hate work. That's why I got married.