Love is most likely to spring from another's need for us, and the fact of spending ourselves for another always generates new life in us. To give lif… - Caryll Houselander

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Love is most likely to spring from another's need for us, and the fact of spending ourselves for another always generates new life in us. To give life is the purpose of love, and we love those people most of all whose needs waken a response in us that floods us with creative energy, causing us to put out new green shoots of life.

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About Caryll Houselander

Caryll Houselander (29 September 1901 – 12 October 1954) was a lay Roman Catholic ecclesiastical artist, mystic, popular religious writer and poet.

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Alternative Names: Frances Caryll Houselander
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