Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
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.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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.
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.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
What's meant to be will always find a way
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 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 inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
For Love is Immortality.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
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.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
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.
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.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love is a great beautifier.
Honor the ocean of love.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Love those who love you.
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.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Love is letting go of fear.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
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.
Real love stories never have endings.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
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.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Work is love made manifest.
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.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
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.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.