Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
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 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.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
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.
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.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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 consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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 talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Love is friendship set to music
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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.
Love is perfect kindness
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
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To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Love is a many splendered thing.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
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.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
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.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
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.
Happy wife, happy life.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
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.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Work is love made manifest.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.