Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. – Vincent Van Gogh
It would be impossible to “love” anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. – Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943
Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. – Henry Ward Beecher
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to ones true character, to be altogether ones self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. – Corliss Lamont
