“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.”
– Harold Loukes
“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.”
– Harold Loukes
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
– Michael Leunig
The story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
– Helen Hayes
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
– Khalil Gibran
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
– Sigmund Freud
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
– François de La Rouchefoucauld