Confucian Ren Quotes & Sayings

I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value. I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? — Jeanette Winterson

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul. — Muhammad Iqbal

And what I have said of soul-winners, belongs not to the learned doctor of divinity, or to the eloquent preacher alone, but to you all who are in Christ Jesus. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. — Gustave Flaubert

If the news is that important, it will find me. — Brian Stelter

This is my fault. If you'd never met me, this wouldn't have happened."
"If I'd never met you, I would never gotten to hold you. I'll take the bullet. — Olivia Cunning

Looking over the beach and the ocean as the sun begins to drop down in the west, a strange sense of pride: pride in all I've done and lived through, proud to think of the thousands of people I've met and known and the few I've loved. — William Boyd

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought — Franz Boas

There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason. — Nick Harkaway