“Love should grow for its own happiness. But in reality, it is very difficult for love to grow alone. Love always needs someone else.”

“When you willingly give up your own happiness for someone else, that is the sign of true love.”

“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”

“Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.”

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”

“We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.”

“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

“You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”