Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

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.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

As I grow to understand life less and less,

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

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

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech