Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

I love people. I enjoy people.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

I just love people. I love them a lot.

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

The wise are wise only because they love.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.