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.
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?'
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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.
We love the things we love for what they are.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of 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
