Harold Loukes says an act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life…

“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

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Michael Leunig says love one another and you will be happy…

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

– Michael Leunig

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Helen Hayes says the story of a love is not important…

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

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Khalil Gibran says it is wrong to think that love comes from…

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

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Leonard Cohen sings hey, why not ask for more…

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Sigmund Freud says love and work are the cornerstones…

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

– Sigmund Freud

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Francois de La Rouchefoucauld says absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones…

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

– François de La Rouchefoucauld

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