It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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.
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.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
The best proof of love is trust.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
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.
Honor the ocean of love.
All mankind love a lover.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.