In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is perfect kindness
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Love is a many splendered thing.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
If you love someone, set them free.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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.
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.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
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.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
The best proof of love is trust.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is the river of life in the world.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
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 isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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.
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.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.