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It seems as if Thou didst subject those who love Thee to a severe trial: but it is in order that they may learn, in the depths of that trial, the depths of Thy love.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. “Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject” ¶ 22 & 23
- God
There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
ADAnnie Dillard1945–2026Holy the Firm (1977)
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
- Marriage
- Money
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Introduction
- Friendship
Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
Catullus84–54 BCV, lines 1–6
- Life & Death
Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Interview, Face to Face, BBC (1959)
- Wisdom
Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130
- Marriage
You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.
Fred Rogers1928–2003Fred Rogers: America’s Favorite Neighbor (television documentary), 2003.
The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985), Vol. I, p. 113
- Intelligence
I’ve been married too many times. How terrible to change children’s affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won’t be there next year.
Elizabeth Taylor1932–2011Elizabeth Taylor: An informal memoir (1965)
- Children
- Marriage
There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace, that is true.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Sandy Hook Prayer Vigil (December 2012)
- Children
Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that’s something nobody can take away from us. It’s unreachable.
Freddie Mercury1946–1991On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in “Rock On Freddie” (1985).
It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.
Queen Victoria1819–1901After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.
I vowed I wouldn’t get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did⁠—but I got married anyway.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969
- Comedy
- Marriage
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Anistonborn 1969Oprah Magazine (2004)