You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's read more

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third read more

'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.

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my read more

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of read more

Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sum what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and read more

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.