“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
“One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.”
“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
“Love is taking care of oneself by freeing one's mind of worries and conducting one self with propriety.”
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”