We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and read more

A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life read more

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them read more

Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them read more

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one read more

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.