We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
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.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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 ?
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Where there is love there is life.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Love is not selfish.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
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.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The best proof of love is trust.
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 an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Love knows no bounds.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
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.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's 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.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.