Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
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.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
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.
The loving are the daring.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Our love is here to stay.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
My heart is ever at your service.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
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.
Where there is love there is life.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Love that is true never grows old.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Love is letting go of fear.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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 as much as you can from wherever you are.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
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.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Real love stories never have endings.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
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.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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 consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.