“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
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“I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Source: Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 30.
Context: I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in Vincent's letter, from Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh : The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17
Variant translations: The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
As quoted in Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By (1999) by Mary Engelbreit
I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
1880s, 1888
Variant: There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.