If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
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.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
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.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
All you need is love.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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.
We can only learn to love by loving.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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 thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
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.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
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.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
What's meant to be will always find a way
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Happy wife, happy life.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
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.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Work is love made manifest.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.