One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
As I grow to understand life less and less,
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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.
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
