William Butler Yeats Quotes

Love without attachment is light.

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

You've got to give away what you love.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

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

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.