Saturday, February 03, 2007

Other People's Insight

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
--Shakespeare

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
--Ralph Connor

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but looking together in the same direction.
--Antone de Saint-Exupery

What we can do for each other is the test of powers: what we can suffer is the test of love.
--Brooke Foss Westcott

4 Comments:

Blogger gothcat said...

Go Antone de Saint-Exupery!well written.To collapse into a union in the hope it will hold you up or make you whole is not the way.to maintain ones identity and entirity,as Is the other person then a beautiful union it will be.no blurring at the seams.What is your motivation Pitfinder?Are you happy or sad today?x

2:01 AM  
Blogger pitfinder said...

It wasn't really a happy or sad thing. Just adding some thoughts to the whole Valentines thing, maybe with a bit more substance than the average greeting card.



And the place where I get all those strange holidays hasn't updated to the new month yet.
:-)

8:42 AM  
Blogger gothcat said...

make up your own freaky holiday babe.come on .

6:16 PM  
Blogger michelle said...

i LOVE the de saint-exupery quote.

i would have used it in my post if i had read your blog first. it kinda perfectly sums up how i feel. :)

and i don't know how much the jacket is. i wouldn't even be allowed in the store probably. :)

1:48 PM  

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