There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a read more

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why read more

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity read more

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting read more

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made read more

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.