Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
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.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
We can only learn to love by loving.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Love is a verb.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Love is friendship set on fire.
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.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Work is love made manifest.
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.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Real love stories never have endings.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
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.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
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.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Union gives strength.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Love knows no bounds.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
For Love is Immortality.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
The heart that loves is always young.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Love is a great beautifier.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Love is letting go of fear.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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 perfect kindness
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 ?
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
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.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.