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Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered,” she went on with a sudden serious sweetness, “but nobody could ever count my love for you.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn1907–2003
- Marriage
- Men
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Peter Camenzind (1904)
Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 94
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
- Philosophy
Love of one’s neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), PrefaceIn context
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
I was in love with loving.
Augustine of Hippo354–430III, 1
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute
- Beauty
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
- God
With love for mankind and hatred of sins.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211
- Morality
Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
HHippothoonOften credited to Euripides
- Marriage
- Men
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Alice Hoffmanborn 1952Here on Earth (1997)