A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.