One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
StendhalRead
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Interpretation
The joy we derive from love is directly linked to the anxieties we have about it.
Stendhal's quote suggests that our experiences of love are deeply intertwined with our fears and insecurities. The more we are afraid to lose someone or afraid of being vulnerable, the more intensely we might feel the pleasures and joys of love, indicating that love can be a source of both bliss and trepidation.
In practice
During a wedding toast, one might say this quote to highlight the depth of love's experience.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
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