"'Being in love' first moved them to..." - Quote by C S Lewis
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
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“Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.”
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
“It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.”
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“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
“The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.”
“Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.”
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“Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.”
“I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”
“Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.”