“What is done in love is done well.”
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Quote of Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 3 April 1878; a cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co
Variant: Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 483
1870s
Context: If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.
“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”
Source: War and Peace
Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
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