Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
The flowering of love is meditation.
I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Who, being loved, is poor?
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last