As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
[ Love ]
Jonathan Swift
Quotes :
- "Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.… "Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Alphonse de Lamartine – love "To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." ~Alphonse de Lamartine
- J. E. Buchrose "Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life." J. E. Buchrose quotes
- "The man who has never made a fool of himself… "The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love." - Theodor Reik