Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love is friendship set on fire.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
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 is when reality is better than your dreams.
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.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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For Love is Immortality.
The heart that loves is always young.
If you love someone, set them free.
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.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Love is the only gold.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
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.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
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.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
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.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
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.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
To know me is to love me.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
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 ?
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Where there is love there is life.
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.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
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.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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.