This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Love is a many splendered thing.
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.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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 !
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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.
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.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
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 ?
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
There are never enough I Love You's.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
I saw and loved.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
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.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
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.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
My heart shall be thy garden.
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.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Love knows no bounds.