Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.