It's better to lose your pride to someone you love

It's better to lose your pride to someone you love,
than to lose your love because of your pride.
Be a friend of thousands, be a lover of one.
Never let go of the one who truly loves you

Only love and death will change all things

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things."
Khalil Gibran - Sand and Foam

Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé

French: Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé.

English: You miss one person and the whole world is deserted.
Lamartine, L'isolement

All else has long been forgotten by me

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for
future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and
traditions;
Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually met
there, who detain'd me for love of me;
Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else has long
been forgotten by me;
I remember, I say, only that woman who passionately clung to me;
Again we wander—we love—we separate again;
Again she holds me by the hand—I must not go!
I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.

Walt Whitman - Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City

Can miles truly separate you from friends?

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

We only part to meet again

We only part to meet again.
John Gay

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
Doug Fetherling

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness. All those happy in the world are so because of their desire for happiness for their happiness of others.

Shantideva, Bodhicarayavatara ("Entering into the Bodhisattva Way of Life" - translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew. Skilton, 1996).

Κι όταν πεθάνουμε να μας θάψετε κοντά-κοντά

Κι όταν πεθάνουμε να μας θάψετε κοντά-κοντά
για να μην τρέχουμε μέσα στη νύχτα να συναντηθούμε.
Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Έρωτας

Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.

Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Φυλάξου από τους παροξυσμούς της αγάπης σου, πολύ εύκολα ο μοναχικός απλώνει το χέρι του σε ’κείνον που αγαπά.
Φρίντριχ Νίτσε, Έτσι μίλησε ο Ζαρατούστρα, «Για τον δρόμο του δημιουργού», σ. 106, μετάφραση Άρης Δικταίος