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.

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.

Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless torments dwell above thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

One is never too old to yearn.

One is never too old to yearn.

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

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

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the read more

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more read more

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.