
„Láska je vzájomný súhlas k vzájomnému nepochopeniu.“
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed
„Láska je vzájomný súhlas k vzájomnému nepochopeniu.“
„Do svojej práce som vložil svoje srdce a dušu a pri tom som stratil rozum.“
„Pravá láska znamená milovať bez vzájomných nárokov ženy na muža a muža na ženu.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Vzájomná láska je vyslovene tvorivá. Jeden chce byť hoden druhého a stať sa takým,“
„Tým prvým v láske je vzájomné pochopenie, a tým najvyšším viera v seba navzájom.“
„Láska zbavená mlčania by stratila nesmrteľnú chuť a vôňu.“
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]