It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Anaïs Nin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-Oscar Wilde
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
Freely we serve, because freely we love.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller