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.
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.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
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.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
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.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Love is the only gold.
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 is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
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.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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 !
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.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
My heart is ever at your service.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Love is friendship set on fire.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Love is not selfish.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Happy wife, happy life.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love is a many splendered thing.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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 loved with a love that was more than love.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The best proof of love is trust.
Love is letting go of fear.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.