Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

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.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

They do not love, that do not show their love.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

Never be afraid to love. Just be careful who you love.

My heart is a compass, and it always leads me back to you.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up.