Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
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.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
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