The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
The best proof of love is trust.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
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.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Work is love made manifest.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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.
If you love someone, set them free.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Where there is love there is life.
We can only learn to love by loving.
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.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
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.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Love is the only gold.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Our love is here to stay.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
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 perfect kindness
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love that is true never grows old.
The loving are the daring.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.