The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and
be loved in return. - Christian
Moulin Rouge
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except
continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one
has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a
single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love
your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that
hurts, nothing else.
Herman Hesse
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him
lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every
form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily
pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how
can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and
all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account
death fearful? No indeed
Plato
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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