Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
To me, a forever love is a bond that can’t be broken.
You don’t walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.
In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Whom the gods love dies young.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
The number 143 means ‘I love you.’ It takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three letters to say ‘you.’ One hundred and forty-three. ‘I love you.’ Isn’t that wonderful?
I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
