To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
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.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
The first duty of love is to listen.
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.
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.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Honor the ocean of love.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
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.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Love those who love you.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
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.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
The best proof of love is trust.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
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.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
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.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Love is not selfish.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Love knows no bounds.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
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 expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
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.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
All mankind love a lover.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.