“Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.”

“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

“We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.”

“It is only life and love that give love and life.”

“All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.”

“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”

“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”

“And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust.”

“To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.”