A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
– Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
– Rob Cella
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
– Jessamyn West
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
– Lao Tzu
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
– Logan Pearsall Smith
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
– Saint Basil
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
– Stendhal
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
– Paul Sweeney
A woman can love twice in her lifetime the first time with innocence and the second time with her heart after that there is nothing left
– jmv
A woman will not throw away a garland, though soiled, which her lover gave: not in the object lies a present?s worth, but in the love which it was meant to mark.
– Bharavi
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
– Rita Mae Brown
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
– Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
– Thomas Fuller
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
– Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
– Wally Lamb
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
Ace When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point And, for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had.
– Casino
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
– H. L. Mencken
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
– Rmy de Gourmont
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
– Sextus Propertius
After love is lost only thing left to flirt with are the facts.
– Justin Chase Campbell
After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
– Bertha von Suttner