She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
To know me is to love me.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Love is the only gold.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Happy wife, happy life.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Honor the ocean of love.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Real love stories never have endings.
The heart that loves is always young.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
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.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
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.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
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.
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.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Love is perfect kindness
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love is not selfish.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love is something eternal.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
What is life without the radiance of love.
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.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.