Love Quote by Robert Collier

Desire is doing double duty here: it reads like a soft blessing, but it’s really a sales pitch for a worldview. Collier’s line turns longing into leverage, implying the universe is less a cold machine than a responsive marketplace. Love something “greatly” and reality starts to bargain with you. That’s not pure sentimentality; it’s an argument about agency dressed up as romance.

The wording is strategic. “It sometimes seems” gives him plausible deniability. He isn’t promising a guaranteed outcome; he’s inviting the reader to notice a pattern, to become a co-author of the claim. If you’ve ever wanted something badly and later gotten it, you can retroactively credit the wanting. If you wanted it badly and didn’t get it, the hedge word “sometimes” quietly absorbs the failure. This is motivation with an escape hatch.

As a publisher steeped in early 20th-century self-help currents (New Thought, mind-power optimism, the era’s faith in personal uplift), Collier is speaking to an audience primed to believe that inner intensity can reorder outer circumstances. The subtext is discipline masquerading as magic: loving “greatly” is a way of saying commit, visualize, prioritize, keep showing up. The quote flatters the reader by framing ambition as a kind of purity rather than hunger or status-seeking.

Its cultural stickiness comes from the emotional logic: love feels noble, and nobility feels like it ought to be rewarded. Collier taps that itch and turns it into permission to try again.