We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
It is natural to let go of a part of yourself to be with that person, but the important part is that you don’t lose your own identity in the process! You don’t know who you are or what you want, but that is totally understandable. Sometimes when you are with the person you love the most, you feel confused.
When you love somebody, you should follow your heart.
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.
True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction.
A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him.
In romantic love, you want the other person.
In real love, you want the other person’s good.
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
The lamp was there, and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there are an unlighted lamp and one burning.
Love is something eternal the aspects may change, but not the essence.
To love something is to give it room enough to grow.
Whenever you have the truth, it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with vintage wine? Upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, I’m drinking it, aren’t I?.
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.