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.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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 is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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 is the only rational act.
My heart shall be thy garden.
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.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
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.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
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.
Honor the ocean of love.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
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.
What is life without the radiance of love.
The heart that loves is always young.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Work is love made manifest.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Love is letting go of fear.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Happy wife, happy life.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
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.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.