The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
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.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
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 recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Love those who love you.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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 most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Love is a great beautifier.
The best proof of love is trust.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
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.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
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.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.