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.
Elbert Hubbard
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Rumi
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Come, let us make love deathless.
Herbert Trench
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
John Bulwer
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Elizabeth Ashley
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Levi ben Gershon
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
James Baldwin
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Ivan Panin
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Ben Oliver
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Anonymous
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Frances Marion
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
David Wilkerson
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
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.
Thornton Wilder
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our love is here to stay.
Ira Gershwin
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Sarah Cunningham
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Collin McCarty
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.
John Keats
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.
Ba'al Shem Tov
Union gives strength.
Aesop
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Marge Piercy
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.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E.E. Cummings
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
I saw and loved.
Edward Gibbon
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
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.
Cyril Connolly
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Luciano De Crescenzo
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Mark Twain
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.
Francis Bacon
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Unknown
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Carlos Castaneda
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.
Barbara De Angelis
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
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.
Judith Viorst
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Frank Tebbetts
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Otomo No Yakamochi
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Kim Wilde
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Mary Baker Eddy
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
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.
Jimi Hollemans
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Unknown
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Drewar
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Mandy Forkner
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Alphonse Marie De Lamartine
If you love someone, set them free.
Sting
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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
James Baldwin
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Kyle Schmidt
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
William Shakespeare
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.
Leo Buscaglia
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
William Butler Yeats
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Karen Casey
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik
Happy wife, happy life.
Jeff Allen
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.