Pastoral Resources

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.