A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

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

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

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 serious mental disease.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

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?

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.