Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
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.
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.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The best proof of love is trust.
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.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Love is a verb.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
All you need is love.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
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.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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.
Honor the ocean of love.
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If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Union gives strength.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
The heart that loves is always young.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Work is love made manifest.
Where there is love there is life.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
The loving are the daring.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.