Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
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.
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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.
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.