Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted read more

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, read more

from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.

The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?