One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Love is just a word until it is proven to you.

Love is just a word until it is proven to you.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation read more

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now read more

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more read more

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through read more

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.