If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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.
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.
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,
The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
The flowering of love is meditation.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...
Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
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.
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.
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.
One word, Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...
