Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
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.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
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.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
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.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
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.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
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.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
For Love is Immortality.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
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.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
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.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
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.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.