Like a mountain whirlwind punishing the oak trees, love shattered my heart.
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.
I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
I can't even believe it--with you it's like having every dream I ever wanted come true.
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
When love kicks you in the teeth, it is telling you to grow up and to get rid of the small pitiful parts of yourself that belittle and betray you. It is reminding you not to settle for the abusive, the superficial, or the trivial in yourself or in your relationship.
Lovsntain
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
I want this music and this dawn and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.
Love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay, the time it is willing to give...and the strength it is willing to spend.
To love our neighbor as ourself is such a fundamental truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other.
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
Who would live and not love?
Someone once said, "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on a man's shoulder.
Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission. We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.
Your task is not to seek for love, But merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love are left, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
Love, love, love--that is the soul of genius.
To be loved is very demoralizing.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
The loving are the daring.
Whatever you do, love those who love you.
Men do not settle down. Men surrender.
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Love is a chain of love as Nature is a chain of life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.
The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.