“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”

Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

“The only way to deal with a toxic person,
is
NOT to deal with them at all!”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church