The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the read more

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the read more

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the read more

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the read more

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

To be loved, be lovable.

To be loved, be lovable.

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.