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.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Love is a verb.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
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.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
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.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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.
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.
Give all to love.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Where there is love there is life.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
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.
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.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
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.
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.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Come, let us make love deathless.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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 !
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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 the greatest refreshment in life.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
If you love someone, set them free.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
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.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.