A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
-- Leo F. Buscaglia
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
-- Author Unknown
Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
-- From the movie Moulin Rouge
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
-- Leo Tolstoy
And here is my heart which beats only for you.
-- Paul Verlaine
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet...
-- Plato
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
-- Author Unknown
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
-- Robert Burns
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
-- Author Unknown
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-- Oscar Hammerstein
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong
Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
-- Anonymous
Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.
-- Allison Mosher
falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.
-- Author Unknown
For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
-- Leland Thomas
Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
-- William Shakespeare
I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
-- Goethe
I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
-- Sarah Mimnaugh
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
-- Julia Roberts
I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker
I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
-- Basia
I love her and that's the beginning of everything.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
-- Ray Croft
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.
-- Hobbes
I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you.
-- Author Unknown
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-- Emily Dickinson
If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
-- Author Unknown
If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
-- Author Unknown
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
-- Anonymous
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-- Janos Arany
In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
-- French proverb
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
-- Hans Nouwens
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-- Maya Angelou
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
-- Oscar Wilde
Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
-- Author Unknown
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
-- William Shakespeare
Love demands all and has a right to it.
-- Beethoven
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Franklin P. Jones
Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,...made new.
-- Le Guin
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.
-- Katharine Hepburn
Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.
-- Lamar Cole
Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
-- Author Unknown
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg
Love is a never ending feeling.
-- Adeil Prince
Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
-- J. Ghetto
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
-- Eurpides
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
-- Helen Keller
Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
-- Kamila
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
-- Henry Beyle Stendahl
Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back.
-- Nigerian Proverb
Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
-- Author Unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
-- Kay Knudsen
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
-- Will Moss
Love is not something you look for,
Love is something you become.
-- Langley
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
-- Jennifer Williams
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A Heinlein
Love is the blueprint for happiness.
-- Lamar Cole
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-- Erich Fromm
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.
-- Michael W.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
-- Barbara Johnson
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
-- Author Unknown
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
-- Gretchen Kemp
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
-- Saint Augustine
So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.
-- Robert Browning
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
-- Thomas Merton
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
-- J. Krishnamurti
The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller
the word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.
-- Author Unknown
The world is filled with reasons why I love you.
-- Author Unknown
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
-- Author Unknown
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-- Samuel Butler
True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
-- Author Unknown
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-- Sam Keen
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
-- Tom Robbins
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-- Helen Keller
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
-- Leo Buscaglia
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.
-- Author Unknown
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
-- Keith Sweat
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
-- Author Unknown
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis