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.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Love is letting go of fear.
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.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
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.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
The loving are the daring.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
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.
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 emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
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 isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Union gives strength.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
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.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
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.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
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 is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Love is perfect kindness
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Love is the only rational act.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.