Source: Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
“It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.”
As quoted in Homelessness in America : A Forced March to Nowhere (1982), p. 121
Context: You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see and the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.
"Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Chap. 1: "To Whom Much is Forgiven..."
The New Being (1955)
“The feeling of forgiving the you love is like the feeling of forgiving themselves.”
Original: La sensazione di perdonare chi ami è come la sensazione di perdonare se stessi.
Source: prevale.net
“… love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
Source: The Course of Love
