Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
My heart is ever at your service.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
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.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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 is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
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.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
All you need is love.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
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.
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.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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.
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.
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.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
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 thy neighbour as thyself.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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.
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.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
The first duty of love is to listen.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
The best proof of love is trust.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
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.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.