Love is a friendhip with erotic moments.

Antonio Gala

Love is patient; love is kindand envies no one.Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;never selfish, not quick to take offense.There is nothing love cannot face;there is no limit to its faith,its hope, and endurance.In a word, there are three thingsthat last forever: faith, hope, and love;but the greatest of them all is love.

Bible

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

William Somerset Maugham

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse De Lamartine

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Teilhard De Chardin

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

Audrey Hepburn

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.

Robert Burns

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

St. Thomas Aquinas

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Thomas Dekker

The things I do to people I love shouldn't be allowed.

Counting Crows

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal.

Don Williams, Jr.

I have to believe that it works...that when two people come together they stay together. I have to take that to bed with me at night even if I'm going to bed alone. That's a McBealism.

Ally Mcbeal

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Nizar Qabbani

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

Sex And The City

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.

Joni Mitchell

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

Julian Barnes

Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.

Karl Menninger, Dr.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone de Beauvoir

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Andreas Capellanus

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

Do you know the German phrase, 'You can steal horses with him'? It means a person you can both make love with all night, passionately, then wake up the next morning and be completely silly.

Jonathan Carroll

The secret of loving is living loved.

Max Lucado

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thornton Wilder

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

George MacDonald

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore De Balzac

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

D.h. Lawrence

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Jerry Falwell

Yet will that beauteous image makeThe dreary sea less drearAnd thy remembered smile will wakeThe hope that tramples fear.

William Cullen Bryant

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

Don Williams, Jr.

And the men who hold high placesmust be the ones who startto mold a new realitycloser to the heart.

Neil Peart

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

With our love, we could save the world.

George Harrison

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.

James Arthur Baldwin

Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them.

Jonathan Petit Senn

She who loves last loves best.

Dar Williams

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.

Native American Proverb

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Maybe your Gonna be the One that Saves me.

Oasis

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

For I don't care too much for money, / For money can't buy me love.

The Beatles

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Nicholas Chamfort

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES.

Gregory Ramkissoon

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Fra Giovanni Giocondo

Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

If dreams give you power, then I'm strong enough to walk through my heart till you love me.

Reba Mcentire

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

Sacha Guitry

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

Arab Proverb

Andy: Look at our love fern! It's dead!Ben: No it's only sleeping.

Kate Hudson

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Robertson Davies

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

I'm awake, but my soul is still sleeping in your heart.

Mariana Fulger

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

I was onstage and I was shocked; it hurt so badly. I thought: Why am I doing this? Why do I sing about needing to get better so she'll come back? That's a real problem I have. I don't need to get better - I need to find someone who likes me the way I am, someone who finds Chris desirable.

Chris Carrabba

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Morrie Schwartz

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Mortimer Adler

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

Ralph W. Sockman

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Frank Gelett Burgess

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.

Jalal Ad din Rumi

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

Robert Burns

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body's needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.

Demosthenes

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

The best proof of love is trust.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

I've grown tired of loveYou are the trouble with meI watch you walk right by.

Anne Sexton

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Karen Allen

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

Morrie Schwartz

Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

S. J. Perelman

Music is love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Douglas Engelbart

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.

Leonardo Dicaprio

If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Mark Helprin

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Alan Paton

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

Orlando Bloom

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Felix Adler

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

Jim Carrey

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani Difranco

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

Gavin Rossdale

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Jean De La Bruyere

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Judith Viorst

Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give away.

Louis Ginsberg

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Shirley Bassey

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore De Balzac

If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The lover in the husband may be lost.

Lord Lyttelton

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes.

Hannah Moore

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Lawrence Durrell

In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.

Michael Eric Dyson

Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah.

Rufus Wainwright

My Hopes are so High that your Kiss might Kill me So won't you Kill me So I die Happy.

Dashboard Confessional

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Lord Byron

Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness.

Robert Burton

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Gerald Jampolsky

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

Maxim Gorky

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Thomas Dekker

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

William Blake

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Boris Pasternak

None love, but they who wish to love.

Jean Baptiste Racine

Love is a product of habit.

Lucretius

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Morton Hunt

The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it.

Gaius Petronius

And you Stood at your Door with your Hands on my Waist and you Kissed me Like you Meant it.

Dashboard Confessional

We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.

Led Zeppelin

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Charles De Saint evremond

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

Don Williams, Jr

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Robert Orben

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Fydor Dostoevsky

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

Economized love is never real love.

Honore De Balzac

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

John Milton

Even those who never frown eventually break down.

Linkin' Park

Who's needs do you statisfy?

Loesje

Love is a universal migraine / A bright stain on the vision / Blotting out reason.

Robert Graves

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Margaret Chase Smith

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henry Youngman

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Richard J. Needham

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

Love necessitates eagerness / To shake / January's cold hand / Not avert the eye / And look what comes / To love / Before its making.

Alamgir Hashmi

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.

Bonnie Jewell

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings...

Paulo Coelho

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.

Walker Percy

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: "if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me." Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Janeane Garofalo

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Joyce Cary

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Margaret Fuller

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Sappho

Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.

George Harrison

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.

Ashley Young

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had, someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you.

Jonathan Larson

Love is so much better when you're not married.

Maria Callas

There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How.

Oasis

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

Henri Matisse

I don't Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now.

Oasis

I want a love like they have in the movies.

Amy Davis

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Lord Byron

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Jalal Ad din Rumi

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Oscar Hammerstein Ii

Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. I thought I'd share that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and went 'ah was that you?' And I didn't have the heart to tell her. Oh!Will: She woke herself up?Sean: Ah...! But Will, she's been dead for 2 years, and that's the.

Good Will Hunting

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

Mary Worley Montagu

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Robert James Waller

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

She loved right from the first sight.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.

George Meredith

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

George Jean Nathan

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: "The blame lies entirely with the female sex for bewitching his mind and enslaving his heart. Oh, seducing sex! Source of pain! Let a poor innocent person go in peace."

Giacomo Casanova

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Milton R. Sapirstein

I will love you when your hair turns gray, and I'll still love you if you gain a little weight. The way I feel for you will always be the same just as long as your loves doesn't change.

Musiq Soulchild

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Teilhard De Chardin

I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm afraid now - by doing what I do - I've missed my chance to ever find it. That I'm destined to get burned again and again.

Chris Carrabba

My heart is yours to Fill or Burst.. To Break or Bury.. Or wear as Jewelry.. Whichever you prefer.

Dashboard Confessional

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Thomas S. Szasz

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Love one another (His last words).

George Harrison

I'm very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just don't expect them to realize it yet.

Byron Katie

She said I bet you don't remember meAnd I said only every other memory.

Tim Mcgraw