All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
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.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
We love the things we love for what they are.
Only one who loves can remember so well.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.