“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer
Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 3
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer
“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
Gustave Flaubert book Sentimental Education
Source: Sentimental Education
“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Matthew Arnold book Culture and Anarchy
Source: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
“Time has no meaning,
Love will endure..”
Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer
“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”
Thomas Malory (1405–1471) English writer, author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur''
“Aim at being loved without being admired.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 38e
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1831)