'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
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The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our read more
The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”
When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them.
When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them.
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion read more
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
