Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
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.
Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
The heart was made to be broken.
I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'
Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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.
I learn to love it more and more.
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
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Only one who loves can remember so well.
A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.
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.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
