Relationships and Family

Take love when love is given, / But never think to find it / A sure escape from sorrow / Or a complete repose.

O, beauty, are you not enough? / Why am I crying after love?

We must resemble each other a little in order to understand each other, but we must be a little different to love each other.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

A child shows gratitude the way a woman/Shows she likes a pretty dress—/Puts it on and takes it off again—

Only the flow matters: live and let live, love and let love.

 

Why love if losing hurts so much we love to know that we are not alone.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf.

The treacherous are ever distrustful. J. R. R.

 

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

His honour rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R.

 

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

 

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life.

The difference between outlaws and in-laws is that outlaws don't promise to pay it back.