You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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 am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Who, being loved, is poor?
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
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.
