Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
Real love is more than a one-time, seemingly iron-clad pledge that we will never be apart. If you're over 20, you've probably figured out that meaningful love isn't constricting; it doesn't chain you to one place or to each other.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.
Love is love's reward.
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
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.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Unrequited love is always a great thing.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.
All love is lost but upon God alone.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
