“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”

“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”

“One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.”

“I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.”

“Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.”

“So beautiful and fortunate
You're the one who hates to love
But he's the one who loves to hate.”

“Hence, in Thee, who art Love, the lover -is not one thing and the loved another, and the bond between them a third, but they are one and the same-Thou, Thyself, my God. Since, then, in Thee the loved is one with the lover, and being loved [is one] with loving, this bond of coincidence is an essential bond. For there is nothing in Thee that is not Thy very Essence.”

“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?”