I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance read more

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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 supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you read more

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, read more

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.