Nelson Algren Quotes

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.