"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." ― Friedrich Nietzsche Topic(s): Love Tags: hardest More From Friedrich Nietzsche "Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it." "He who laughs best today, will also laughs last." "The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!" More In Love "For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."― Rainer Maria Rilke "As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible."― Mario Batali "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld