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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in read more
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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.