We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
What force is more potent than love?
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Absence – that common cure of love.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Love is stronger than justice.
