Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
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.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
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.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
All you need is love.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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.
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.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
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.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Love is the only gold.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
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.
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.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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.
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.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
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.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
My heart is ever at your service.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
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.
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 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 grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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.