'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for read more
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth read more
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
in love.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made read more
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's read more
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I read more
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
