“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”

“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”

“To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.”

“I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.”

“Without love for life, neither human obligations, nor their fulfillment would be possible. Only with love can duty be a free choice and an exciting decent pursuit.”

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

“The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

“All your problems come down to love. Your love life is what your problem is, and everybody else's on earth. God in existence is man and woman. There's nothing else. And unless you have loved God in existence - your duality which is woman or man - unless you have united with that through love and devotion without going through your feelings of love, you're not going to be enlightened.”