It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in read more

It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in someone else's.

Banish night! Welcome light!
Love is the brightest star!

Banish night! Welcome light!
Love is the brightest star!

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.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves...

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of read more

When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.