I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give the more they possess.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
We always love those who admire us but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants and giraffes and crocodiles and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children and enjoy it.
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.
Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
Those whom we can love we can hate to others we are indifferent.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy natural and enjoyable.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love make haste to be kind.