selective love Quotes

You love only those who deserve it.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Nobody loves everybody.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.