Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
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 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
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
All mankind love a lover.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
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 smiling on the inside and out.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
For Love is Immortality.
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.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
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.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
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Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Love that is true never grows old.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love is the whole and more than all.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
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.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.