A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
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.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
There are never enough I Love You's.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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 thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Familiar acts are beautiful through 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.
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.
I saw and loved.
The loving are the daring.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Love is perfect kindness
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
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.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Work is love made manifest.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Love is letting go of fear.
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.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
The best proof of love is trust.
Love is a many splendered thing.
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.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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 immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Love is the only gold.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
The heart that loves is always young.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
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.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
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.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Real love stories never have endings.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
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 is a game that two can play and both win.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
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We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.