Love Proverbs

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

You cannot put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Soul mates do not finally meet somewhere; they are in each other all along.

You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even of you are not part of their happiness.

In life, love is never planned nor does it happen for a reason. But when love is real, it becomes a plan for life and a reason for living.

It is not lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.

Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes if those who don’t believe in romance.

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.

It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really has to know each other to get divorced.

The most beautiful discovery true soul mates make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.

If there ever comes a day when we cannot be together, keep me in your heart. I will stay there forever.

You fall in love with personality but you live with character.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you are really strangers.

A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love.

Love is a decision, not an emotion, that if made from the hart will outlast anything.

The way you love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken for granted relationship.

Getting divorced just because you do not love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Kisses may not spread germs, but they certainly lower resistance.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

If you decide to love a person, even with his faults, that is not chance. That is choice.

Fate brings you together, but it is still up to you to make it happen.

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.

Faults are thick where love is thin.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Do not trust anyone who does not close his/her eyes when you kiss.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

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 can understand the facts of life. But facts of love are much different. To love you love someone or someone loves you... But when you both love each other you're in love with one another. First, become friends and let it go. Then get serious and get together. Just make yourself known as a person not as someone you do not want to be known as...

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

Love does not make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Trouble is part of your life - if you do not share it, you do not give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none is strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none is necessary.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

When you have nothing left but love, then for the first time you become aware that love is enough.

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.

Real magic in your relationship means the absence of judgment of one another.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Do not marry someone you can live with, marry the person who you cannot live without.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

True love comes quietly. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

You cannot make someone love you; all you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.

In life as in love, if you can fake it, you can make it!

Love is not about becoming somebody's 'perfect person'. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.

Love me the most when I deserve it the least, which is when I need it the most.

Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to become lost again.

Love is not something you experience; its something you remember.

We all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return.

It is love, not reason, than is stronger than death.

Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go.

To be capable of steady friendship and lasting love are the two greatest proofs of goodness of heart and strength of mind.

The best way to lose love is to hold it too tight and the best way to keep it is to give it wings.

You do not love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

The best proof of love is trust.

Its not that I cant live without you, it is that I do not even want to try.

It is so funny how we get qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception.

Love can make you happy although often times it hurts. But love is only special if you give it to which it is worth.

When you love, it is not for you to be understood but for you to understand; not for you to take but for you to be taken; to listen not to dictate; to sacrifice and not to demand; not to count or measure but to love.

It is better to loose your pride with someone you love rather than lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Test of love always end badly.

When love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest person in the world.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

Love is wanting to win a heart at any cost.

Love is a game to be played with reckless abandon.

Love has its own time, season and own reasons! You cannot ask it to stay, you can only embrace it as it comes and be glad that for a moment in your life it was yours!

True love does not have a happy ending. That is because true love does not have an ending.

A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.

When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough.

Love is an act of tender forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

Just because someone does not love you the way you want them to, does not mean they do not love you with all they have.

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

I do not want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.

Forget love…I would rather fall in chocolate.

How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends?

Will you love me for the rest of my life? No, I will love you for the rest of mine.

You cannot find true love, where it does not truly exist, and you cannot hide it where it truly does.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, its what you are expected to give – which is everything.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged cupid painted blind.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

Of all the pain, the greatest pain, it is to love, but in vain.

Love and a red nose cannot be hid.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I feel it when I when I sorrow most: it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

When you are in love, you are a flute through the heart, and the whispering of the beloved's thoughts turn into music.

Love is a feeling, which you feel, when you feel the feeling, you have never felt before.

Do not find love, let love find you. That is why it is called falling in love because you do not force yourself to fall, you just fall.

I love you not because I need you, but I need you because I love you.

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

Never love a love that hurts, never hurt a love that loves.

You came from nowhere, and in no time got close..., not to me, but to my heart.

When two friends fall in love, they learn they are meant for each other. When they fall out of love, they realize they want to keep each other forever.

Once you have loved, you will always love for what is in your mind may escape but what is in your heart will remain forever.

It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy with someone else...but it is more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.

There are so many stars in the sky only some get noticed. Among those you choose to ignore is the one that was willing to shine for you forever even if your glance remained elsewhere.