The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our read more

The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”

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.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made read more

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a read more

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic read more

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.

Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to read more

Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too read more

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.