Precept and Practice – AUGUST 8 – Love and Self-love

It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.   Where two love, it is the loving of each other, and not the being loved by each other, that originates, perfects, and assures their blessedness. 

(MacDonald)

When Love is hurt, it is self-love that requires the opiate,

George Meredith (Evan Harrington)

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love for ever is to live for ever.

(Professor Henry Drummond)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW