I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

Martin Luther King Jr. · From his last presidential address to the SCLC, Atlanta, 16 August 1967; the popular "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear" splices this with a line a few sentences later, "hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love."

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

Martin Luther King Jr. · Founders Day address at Spelman College, Atlanta, 10 April 1960.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr. · From the sermon "Loving Your Enemies", first preached at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery in 1957 and published in his 1963 sermon collection.

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

“I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.”

“If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

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