In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
The heart that loves is always young.
Real love stories never have endings.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Love is the whole and more than all.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
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.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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 a verb.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Where there is love there is life.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
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 only true gift is a portion of yourself.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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 is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
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.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Come, let us make love deathless.
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.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
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.
A simple I love you means more than money.
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.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
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.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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.
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.
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.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Love is the only rational act.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Love those who love you.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
If you love someone, set them free.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.