I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

As I grow to understand life less and less,

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

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

The flowering of love is meditation.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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

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.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.