Anything that is close to your heart is worthy of your time and commitment.
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection
Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .
Love follows knowledge.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is not a relationship. Relationship is a dead thing, a closed thing. Love is a flowing.
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
In love, the quickest is always the best cure.
Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
I think of friendship in terms of love.
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.