She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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 what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
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, above all, the gift of oneself.
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.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
All you need is love.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Work is love made manifest.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Love those who love you.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Give all to love.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
My heart is ever at your service.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
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 talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Love that is true never grows old.
If you love someone, set them free.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
There are never enough I Love You's.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
I saw and loved.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
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.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.