And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
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 in its essence is spiritual fire.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Union gives strength.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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.
Love is the only gold.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
If you love someone, set them free.
All mankind love a lover.
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 reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
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.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
The heart that loves is always young.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
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
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.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
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.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
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.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love is a verb.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Love that is true never grows old.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
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.
My heart is ever at your service.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is the only rational act.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Love knows no bounds.