Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

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

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

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.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Grief is the price we pay for 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.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.