Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.

Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell
from Cyrano.

Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell
from Cyrano.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the read more

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

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.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not read more

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.