She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Love those who love you.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love is perfect kindness
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Where there is love there is life.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Love is letting go of fear.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
My heart is ever at your service.