"I was looking for something to love,..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
More by Saint Augustine
“When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:The same as you do when you infest the whole world;but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.”
“Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.”
“Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.”
More on Love
“Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with”
“The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved”
“A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.”
More on Desire
“If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more.”
“Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.”
“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .”