Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Love is a verb.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
What's meant to be will always find a way
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
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.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
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 a great beautifier.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
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.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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.
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.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
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.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
My heart is ever at your service.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Work is love made manifest.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
The first duty of love is to listen.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
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 like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
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.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Love knows no bounds.
All you need is love.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
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.
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.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.