You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a read more

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

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.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, read more

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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.]