"...if all we mean by our love..." - Quote by C S Lewis
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
More by C S Lewis
“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.”
“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”
“He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”
More on Love
“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us”
“Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!Smile, for your lover comes!”
“Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.”
More on Selfishness
“True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.”
“I'm selfish.”
“Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.”