Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness read more

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

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.

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

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of read more

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and read more

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or read more

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, read more

It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, to recognize love. Even when we hold it....in our hands.

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.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with read more

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.