Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, still subordinate?), it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become world, to become world for himself for another's sake. It is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them. But if we nevertheless…

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must h…

Next time... we will laugh more, we'll love more; we just won't be so afraid.

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.