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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
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.
- God
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), in Toward the Future (1975), trans. René Hague
- God
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet1628–1699
‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)In contextOften credited to Augustine of Hippo
Love will conquer at the last.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 280
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Lover’s Tale (1879), line 466
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;
In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Locksley Hall (1842)In context
- Youth
Dear as remember’d kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign’d
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Tears, Idle Tears (1847)In context
- Time
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa1910–1997