One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'

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

The only victory over love is flight.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

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

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

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

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

One word, Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

The heart was made to be broken.

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

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

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.