A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Union gives strength.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
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.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
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.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
The loving are the daring.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
All mankind love a lover.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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
Love is a many splendered thing.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Love is the only rational act.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
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.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
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.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
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.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
The first duty of love is to listen.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Love is perfect kindness
A simple I love you means more than money.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
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.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
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.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
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 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.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
All you need is love.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Love is not selfish.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.