Love Quotes
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Love is not selfish.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Love those who love you.
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.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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.
If you love someone, set them free.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Love is a great beautifier.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
I saw and loved.
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 the enchanted dawn of every heart.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
A woman who is loved always has success.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
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.
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.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Union gives strength.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.