Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
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 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 ?
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.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
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.
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.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Love is letting go of fear.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Give all to love.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Real love stories never have endings.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
We can only learn to love by loving.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
If you love someone, set them free.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
The first duty of love is to listen.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
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.
Love is something eternal.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
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.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Love is not selfish.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.