Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Ultimately love is everything.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
You can't create experience, you undergo it.