To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
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.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
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.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
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 most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
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.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
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.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
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.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
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.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Love is a many splendered thing.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
For Love is Immortality.
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.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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 not selfish.
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.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Love is letting go of fear.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
The best proof of love is trust.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
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.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.