All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
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.
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God. and think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
As I grow to understand life less and less,
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
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.
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.