Relationships and Family

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.

Though 1 know he loves me, / Tonight my heart is sad; / His kiss was not so wonderful / As all the dreams I had.

Though 1 know he loves me, / Tonight my heart is sad; / His kiss was not so wonderful / As all the dreams I had.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well,—parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well,—parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

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

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son’s age.

The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to he a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times.

The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to he a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times.

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how that can be? / I know not, but I feel the agony.

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

 

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

I hold it true, what’re befall feel it, when I sorrow most ‘is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

I hold it true, what’re befall feel it, when I sorrow most ‘is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

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

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.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love.

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. J. R. R.