The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
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.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
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.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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 is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
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.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
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.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
I saw and loved.
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, two minds without a single thought.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Love that is true never grows old.
If you love someone, set them free.
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.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
For Love is Immortality.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
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.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
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.
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.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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 is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.