Romantic Quotes

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley

Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tze

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Unknown

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

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.
Anna Louise Strong

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything
Unknown

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz