The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

Every man's death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us. We are not waiting for his history to be written. He passed here long ago. That man who is all men and who stands in the dock for us until our own time come and we must stand for him. Do you love him, that man? Will you honor the path he has taken? Will you listen to his tale?

The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.

But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.

Love is the cause of causes

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.' She pressed her face to mine. 'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,' She shook her head. 'But if you give you to me, then'- she placed her palm flat across my chest -'come heavy

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.