Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
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.
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 vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
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 that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
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.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Where there is love there is life.
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.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
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.
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.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
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.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
A woman who is loved always has success.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Give all to love.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
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.
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.