The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Love is energy of life.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
We all need each other.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
To love is to act.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
