The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact
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.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
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.
Who, being loved, is poor?
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
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.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
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.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
