Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Teresa

LOVE, OUR LIFE OF POVERTY IS AS NECESSARY AS THE WORK ITSELF

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Helen Rowland

falling, merely, love

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

without loving, love without giving.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

passions, love, absence

There is no limit to the power of loving.

John Morton

power of loving.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

a single soul

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

love, regret, loved