Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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.

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 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.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Speak low, if you speak love.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

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.

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

Only one who loves can remember so well.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

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

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The flowering of love is meditation.

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.

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

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

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.