Love is letting go of fear.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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.
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.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
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.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
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.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
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.
Love is not selfish.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.