Life is the first gift, love is the second.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love is the whole and more than all.
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.
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.
The loving are the daring.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Love is perfect kindness
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.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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
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.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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.
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.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
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.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
All mankind love a lover.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
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.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
To know me is to love me.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
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.
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.
Love is not selfish.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
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.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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.
All you need is love.
Love is the only gold.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Our love is here to stay.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.