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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
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.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
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.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Happy wife, happy life.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is 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.
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.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
My heart shall be thy garden.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Love is perfect kindness
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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.
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.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
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.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
I saw and loved.
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.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
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.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Give all to love.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Who so loves believes the impossible.