Unembellished by any violence of gesticulation, this might have seemed no very high compliment to the lady's charms; but, as Mr. Bumble accompanied the threat with many warlike gestures, she was much touched with this proof of his devotion, and protested, with great admiration, that he was indeed a dove.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

Did you ever stop to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn't have to work for a living? A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.

The only true language in the world is a kiss... When the pleasure is simple and complete... in the offering.

We don't love because people love us back. We love because we can. Because we were made to.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.