
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
“Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“What we know is as nothing, if we do not love God properly in all things.”
[Norris, K., The Cloister Walk, Penguin Publishing Group, 1997, 978-1-101-21566-1, http://books.google.com/books?id=pZkLNwpYcJ0C&pg=PT115]
“Love what we see can from our sight remove,
And things invisible are seen by Love.”
Book I, line 396
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”
La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)