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.
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.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
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.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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.
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.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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.
Love is something eternal.
Honor the ocean of love.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If you love someone, set them free.
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.
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.
The loving are the daring.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
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.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
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.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
What's meant to be will always find a way
My heart shall be thy garden.
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, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
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 ?
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
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.