Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

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.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

He whom love touches not walks in darkness

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.