Hermann Hesse: Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much w — Hermann Hesse

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above. — Edmund Spenser
The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite. — Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman r — Mark Twain
Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns. — Samuel Butler
Your heart is as Solomon’s signet; take care That it falls not a prey to demons. — Rumi
I cannot understand your nature. If my nature had been made to suit your compreh — Oscar Wilde
True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and ch — Ben Jonson
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. — Laozi
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history. — Napoleon
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of ou — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing so powerful as truth; and often nothing so strange. — Daniel Webster
May I really say it! All truths are bloody truths to me —take a look at my previ — Friedrich Nietzsche