Relationships and Family

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up." Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Be of love (a little) more careful than of everything.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct–it’s an art.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.

I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world; but it will be heard by posterity.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

And that’s what parents were created for.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.