It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
You can't create experience, you undergo it.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye