Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
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.
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 ?
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
All you need is love.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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 am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Love is the only rational act.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
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.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
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.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
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.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
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.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Love the giver more than the gift.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
My heart is ever at your service.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Love is letting go of fear.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love is perfect kindness
To know me is to love me.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
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.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
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.
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.
A woman who is loved always has success.