Relationships and Family

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.

Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

For a man to become a poet he must be in love, or miserable.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honorable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honorable.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

It is only just that anything that up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.