What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, read more

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true.

Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.