“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”

“Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used. ”

“My mother sat me down and said, ...you are beautiful to me but must know that you are beautiful for yourself. You should also be aware that true beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which means that how beautiful you are to other people is always going to be subjective to who is looking at you at that time, and since you will always be looking at yourself first, you should find your own beauty and feel good about who you are.” She went on to tell me that I needed to take the time to identify those things that I found to be beautiful about myself but also celebrate what I thought was weird or unusual because those were the special things that God had given to me that made me different from everybody else. I learned how to appreciate, embrace, and enhance those special things so that they would shine rather than be hidden...We learned to love and identify with what made us uniquely beautiful.”

“The great essentials for happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.”

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

“Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.”

“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

“But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.”

“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own. ”

“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy.”

“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change nor falter nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory.”

“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.”

“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”