Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Work is love made manifest.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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.
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.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
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.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Real love stories never have endings.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
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.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
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.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
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.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love is a verb.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
I saw and loved.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
All mankind love a lover.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love the giver more than the gift.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
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.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
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.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
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 most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.