If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.
To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret.
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence.
Never leave me, and I will never leave you.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us.
My Mistress and Friend, my heart and I surrender ourselves into your hands.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
