John Steinbeck Quotes

Love is one of my main inspirations.

[Senator Roscoe Conkling is:] A great fighter, inspired more by his hates than his loves.

Hate, not hat, is in the ring.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

No one ever hates without a cause.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

I developed a reputation as a "hothead" because I got in the face of a lot of reporters and they thought I was just a hotheaded person. What they didn't understand was that I was motivated by love.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Love is something you fall into.

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

We love because we love.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Fall in love with what you're going to do for a living. To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words. I'd rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.