"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

Mencken, H. L. | Truth | 2 bookmarks

"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic | Relationships | 5 bookmarks

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. | Love | 49 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 39 bookmarks

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil | Love | 11 bookmarks

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Love | 16 bookmarks

"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Love | 12 bookmarks

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard | Giving | 12 bookmarks

"Love alone could waken love."

Buck, Pearl S. | Love | 7 bookmarks