Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
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.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
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.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
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.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Our love is here to stay.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
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.
Love is not selfish.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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.
The best proof of love is trust.
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.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
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.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
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.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
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 best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
My heart shall be thy garden.
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 those who love you.
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.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.