I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

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

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

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

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.

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