To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.

To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has read more

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself.

You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself.

It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.

It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted read more

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.

The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.

One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
A mighty love within my breast has grown,
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One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
A mighty love within my breast has grown,
Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;
And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.
[Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:
Un amour eternel en un moment concu.
La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,
Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]

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.