One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
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
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
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 you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Love those who love you.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
I saw and loved.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
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.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Real love stories never have endings.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
If you love someone, set them free.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
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, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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 the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
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.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
For Love is Immortality.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Love is something eternal.
All mankind love a lover.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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.
The loving are the daring.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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 a great beautifier.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.