Love

"We love without reason and without reason we hate."

"Oh, I've loved him too much to feel no hate for him."

"Your associations or company can either elevate you or push you down. Company causes first attraction and later delusion. This keeps your mind swinging between the two extremes of love and hate. "

"Can there be love in which there is no sense of being wounded when love is not returned? If I offer my friendship and you turn away, am I not hurt?... Surely as long as I feel hurt, as long as there is fear, as long as I help you hoping that you may help me... there is no love. "

"When love is strong, personalities don't need to impress, for love in itself is impressive and automatically illuminates the important things."

"Remember that your judgment of someone will not serve as a protective shield against you becoming like him. Just because I judged my lunch partner as offensive does not prevent me from ever looking or acting like him... As tough and rigid as judgment and intolerance may be, it can never protect you from anything but love."

"We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love."