It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
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.
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.
Work is love made manifest.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is a hole in the heart.
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.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Love is the river of life in the world.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Give all to love.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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 is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
For Love is Immortality.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
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.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
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.
There are never enough I Love You's.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Love the giver more than the gift.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Union gives strength.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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 only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Love is a great beautifier.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
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.