Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the read more

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the read more

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you read more

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I read more

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall read more

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and read more

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.