The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
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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.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
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.
All mankind love a lover.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
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.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
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.
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.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
The loving are the daring.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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 the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
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.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
If you love someone, set them free.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
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 !
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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.
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.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Love is not selfish.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
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.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
For Love is Immortality.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
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 not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Real love stories never have endings.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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 no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Come, let us make love deathless.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.