Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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.
All mankind love a lover.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
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.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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.
Our love is here to stay.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
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.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
If you love someone, set them free.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
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.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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.
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 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.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
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.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
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.
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.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Give all to love.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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.