Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.
At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
There is one who kisses, and the other who offers a cheek.
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
And if I loved you Wednesday, well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
