Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is read more

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last read more

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over read more

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or read more

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

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.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.