Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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- The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
- It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar – I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
- When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
- Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
- At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
- Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.