Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
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.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Love is a many splendered thing.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
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.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is friendship set on fire.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Love is perfect kindness
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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.
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.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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.
Love those who love you.
Honor the ocean of love.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
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.
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 reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
A simple I love you means more than money.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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.
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.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
The best proof of love is trust.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
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 does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Love is letting go of fear.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
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.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
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.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.