I have decided to stick with love

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"Love is blind; hate is deaf."
~Author Unknown

"Hate cages all the good things about you."
~Madrianne Arvore

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."
~Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
~Herman Hesse

"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who fears noises."
~Cyril Connolly

"He that fears you present will hate you absent."
~Thomas Fuller

"A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves."
~E. Stanley Jones

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them."
~Charles Caleb Colton

"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
~Mary Renault

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."
~Bertrand Russell

"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior."
~Friedrich Nietzsche

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
~Booker T. Washington

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
Eric Hoffer

"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness."
~William Arthur Ward

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
~James Baldwin

"A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man."
~Archibald Macleish

"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."
~George Bernard Shaw

"We love without reason, and without reason we hate."
~Jean-francois Regnard

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
~Yoda

"While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance."
Hans Bos

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
~Buddha

"An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
~Mahatma Ghandi

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa

"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen."
~1 John 4:20

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.