Happy Valentine's day

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

(Alexander Smith, poet)



No. Love is the discovery in others of that which we are missing in ourselves, and the appreciation and delight in the recognition thereof. We love others not despite what they themselves might be missing, but because of those things, and how we are able to fill that part of them the way they fulfill us. For we cannot love until we know ourselves, both what we are and what we are not.