For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love knows no bounds.
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.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love is a verb.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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 ?
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
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.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
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.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
What's meant to be will always find a way
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.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
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 as much as you can from wherever you are.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
Love is a great beautifier.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Love is not selfish.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Honor the ocean of love.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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 more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
We can only learn to love by loving.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.