It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
What is life without the radiance of love.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
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.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
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.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
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.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Our love is here to stay.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
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.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
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.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
All mankind love a lover.
Love is not selfish.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
My heart shall be thy garden.
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.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
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.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.