Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Rekindled love is generally short-term.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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 and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
When the power of love, will overcome the love of power; the world will know peace.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy
