“Things must be loved before they are lovely.”
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
“Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can express it. You must love yourself before you can give it to another.”
“Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people.” (578)”
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not”
“A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”