How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee freely as men strive for Right; I love thee purely as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs and with my childhoods faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saintsI love thee with the breadth Smiles tears of all my life!and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover?s arms can only come later when you?re sure they won?t laugh if you trip.
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…. Does not love every instant achieve all around us in the couple or the team the magic feat … of personalizing by totalizing? And if that is what it can achieve daily on a small scale why should it not repeat this one day on world-wide dimensions?
The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
And now good morrow to our waking souls Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone Let maps to other worlds on worlds have shown Let us possess one world each hath one and is one.
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
All love shifts and changes. I dont know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
When love is not madness it is not love.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
The best proof of love is trust.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee freely as men strive for Right; I love thee purely as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs and with my childhoods faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saintsI love thee with the breadth Smiles tears of all my life!and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
Such ever was love?s way: to rise it stoops.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Sometimes its a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that mens behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover?s arms can only come later when you?re sure they won?t laugh if you trip.
Where there is great love there are always wishes.
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…. Does not love every instant achieve all around us in the couple or the team the magic feat … of personalizing by totalizing? And if that is what it can achieve daily on a small scale why should it not repeat this one day on world-wide dimensions?
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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.
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
All thoughts all passions all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love – and to put its trust in life.
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
We are all born for love…. It is the principle of existence and its only end.
And now good morrow to our waking souls Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone Let maps to other worlds on worlds have shown Let us possess one world each hath one and is one.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
You dont have to go looking for love when its where you come from.
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Immature love says I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is not blind – it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Looking back I have this to regret that too often when I loved I did not say so.
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Love I find is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Love is my religion – I could die for it.