If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.

Anonymous

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Anna Magnani
1918-1973, Egyptian-born Italian Actor

Saint Teresa

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
Saint Teresa

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche