“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically -- to those who hardly think about us in return.”

— T. H. White, book The Queen of Air and Darkness

The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939)

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author 1906–1964

Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer

Source: Merlin

“Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Never Give All The Heart http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1545/ In The Seven Woods (1904) Context: Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

“That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book Sister of My Heart

Source: Sister of My Heart

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“Perhaps the heart does not deceive; never does give a false answer, except to those double-minded unhappy ones who do care about themselves, and so play tricks with it and tamper with it.”

James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“We have three kinds of family
1. Those we are born to
2. Those who are born to us
3. And those we let into our hearts”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Simi? What was it you told me once about families?
We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.
Source: Bad Moon Rising

“We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

“But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Source: Fairy Tales

“We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.
Maxim 347. Compare: "'That was excellently observed,' say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken." Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically -- to those who hardly think about us in return.”

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