"I believe that people want the scent..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.
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More on Love
“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
“Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...”
“I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.”
More on Humanity
“[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.”
“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”
“Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.”