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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Don't forget to love yourself.

I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

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

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

The flowering of love is meditation.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?