To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Greg Anderson
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Pablo Picasso
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. Chuck Palahniuk
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster
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
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera
At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish. Hillary Clinton
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. Christian Nestell Bovee
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen