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Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.
Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.
 Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is.  
 Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is. 
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on read more
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
 The king himself has follow'd her
 When she has walk'd before.  
 The king himself has follow'd her
 When she has walk'd before. 
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who read more
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will read more
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.