We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

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.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

One word, Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.