Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
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.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Union gives strength.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
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.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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 does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Love is the only rational act.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Love is the river of life in the world.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Love is letting go of fear.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Love is a great beautifier.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
If you love someone, set them free.
For Love is Immortality.
The best proof of love is trust.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
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
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry 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.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.