“Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.”— Madame de Staël, A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions (1796), Sec. 1, ch. 4Share
“The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement.”— Madame de StaëlShare
“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”— Khalil GibranShare
“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”— Khalil GibranShare
“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”— Khalil GibranShare
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”— Leo TolstoyShare
