"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."
"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
"Everything is clearer when you're in love."
"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy."
"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
"I love life because what more is there."
"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
"Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?"
"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
"You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters."
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."
"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
"Happiness does not consist in self-love."