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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Sep 9, 2025
Whoso loves, believes in the impossible
Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May?
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
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.
Who, being loved, is poor?
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.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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.
And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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.
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.