"For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is."

"Le temps, qui fortifie les amitiés, affaiblit l'amour."

"L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir."

"Le commencement et le déclin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras où l'on est de se trouver seuls."

"L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime."

"Regretter ce que l'on aime est un bien, en comparaison de vivre avec ce que l'on hait."

"Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

"Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully."

"Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law."

"Just as a mother with her own life Protects her child, her only child, from harm, So within yourself let grow A boundless love for all creatures.Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth."

"You couldn't love anything as much as I loved investments and not get fairly good at it."

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."

"’’¡Oh amor entretenido en astros y palomas,/cómo en rocío feliz cruzas mi alma!’’"

"la palabra amor/se alzará de la tierra/en volcán inocente/que renueva universos"

"Love. What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE."

"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator."

"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

"The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love."

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

"A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully."

"It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. Our concern is so to order ourselves that we may be of the number of them that enter into life — although we know it not."

"To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

"A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them."

"Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns."

"Love is a boy by poets styl'd: Then spare the rod and spoil the child."

"What mad lover ever dy'd, To gain a soft and gentle bride? Or for a lady tender-hearted, In purling streams or hemp departed?"

"Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band, Let sage or cynic prattle as he will, These hours, and only these, redeem Life's years of ill."

"The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name."

"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."

"Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still— Is human love the growth of human will?"

"And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him."

"She knew she was by him beloved,—she knew For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart Was darken'd with her shadow."

"Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure Is bitterer still."

"O! that the Desert were my dwelling place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her!"

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence: man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone."

"Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing."

"In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love."

"All I have is my love of love and love is not loving."

"You are at the beginning of your life, perhaps you will have many loves, but if you are fortunate, you will have only one love."

"If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection."

"Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; — Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers Trapped dreams must die, — For he that visions God, of mankind gathers One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's Love for his son."

"What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this."

"Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood."

"There is no gift more great than love."

"I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard For love to ever last My heart should be well-schooled Cause I've been fooled in the past But still I fall in love so easily I fall in love too fast"

"Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything."

"When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others."

"The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively."