To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.