Love Quotes
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
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.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
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 conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
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.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
I saw and loved.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this 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.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
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.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Real love stories never have endings.
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.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
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.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
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.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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 asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
To know me is to love me.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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.
The heart that loves is always young.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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.
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 ?
Give all to love.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
The hottest love has the coldest end.