“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Antonio Porchia
“This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.”
Frank McKibben
“She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The ultimate commitment to another is knowing you can stay true with the unknown of what you can be.”
Kevin Sparks
“We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.”
Irving Layton
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
Pietro Aretino