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.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
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 not love until love's vulnerable.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The heart that loves is always young.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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.
All you need is love.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
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.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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 like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Come, let us make love deathless.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
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.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Work is love made manifest.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
My heart shall be thy garden.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Happy wife, happy life.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.