This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.