Love is like a friendship caught on fire. — Bruce Lee
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. — George Jean Nathan
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. — Robert Blair
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. — C. S. Lewis
Romantic Friendship Image Quotes
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Romantic Relationship Quotes
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. — Bernard of Clairvaux
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. — Chris Rock
Romantic Love Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland
We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. — Jennifer Donnelly
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be. — Ernest Hemingway
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. — Nina Simone
Romantic Marriage Quotes
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
You are the best thing that's ever been mine. — Taylor Swift
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both. — Isabel Allende
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen
Romantic Feelings Quotes
To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again. — Laura Ortiz
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. — Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. — Thomas Wolfe
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings. — David Sedaris
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. — Ravi Zacharias
The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic — Ville Valo
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical — Trey Parker
Romantic Life Quotes
You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet. — George Strait
Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting. — Dean Martin
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. — Alexander McQueen
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. — Alan Moore
The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art. — Grant Wood
Love And Friendship Quotes
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. — Jimmy Buffett
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Helen Steiner Rice
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die. — Joan of Arc
Love Romance Quotes
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more. — William Bernhardt
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm
My heart is, and always will be, yours. — Jane Austen
When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. — Nicholas Sparks
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us. — Julio Cortazar
The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
You have no idea how beautiful life can be.
When you suddenly find God everywhere,
when He comes and talks to you and guides you,
the romance of divine love has begun. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. — Jay McInerney
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens
Romantic Book Quotes
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. — Ernest Hemingway
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. — Suzanne Collins
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent. — Sherman Alexie
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. — Stephenie Meyer
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. — Buchi Emecheta
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. — Paulo Coelho
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. — Victor Hugo
You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. — Suzanne Collins
I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy. — Robert Pattinson
Friendships And Relationships Quotes
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. — Aristotle
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. — Brené Brown
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Mao Zedong
Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst
We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman
Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs
Be like family to your friends, a friend to strangers, and a stranger to your enemies. — Naval Ravikant
Most people who have ever lived are forgotten. Most of us alive today will be forgotten. The lasting impact we have is through our connection to other human beings: through friendship, parenting, mentorship, friendly competition, collaboration, and love. — Lex Fridman
Beautiful Friendship Quotes
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. — Helen Keller
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. — Robert Breault
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. — Nicole Richie
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — P. G. Wodehouse
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. — Jane Austen
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. — Seneca
You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are — Barry White
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had. — Nicholas Sparks
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. — Oprah Winfrey
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons. — George Hewitt Myers
The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer. — Olivia Wilde
That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything. — Moby
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. — Andrew Sullivan
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are. — Alanis Morissette
There are a lot of explorations on TV of romantic relationships, and some are good and some are bad. I think there are very few explorations of male friendship that' s not just a wingman type friendship and not just an opportunity for humor, but that really explores two friends and their relationship. — David Shore
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person. — Andrew Sullivan
With you, I would walk anywhere — Jimmy Buffett
The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that I'm aspiring for. I don't know. The lyrics are always about unsuccessful relationships. They're not all about the love between a man and a woman. It's about friendship and family. Deep down there's a lot of talk about general existence. — Chris Martin
It's time to hand back responsibility for being an adult to everyone in the situation. You're not helping anybody by staying in a romantic relationship that isn't good for you or staying in a work relationship that sucks or staying in a friendship where you hate the other person. That's not helping anyone. — Sara Benincasa
"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them. — Judy Blume
A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin. — Pope Francis
I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships. That might be a weird answer, but I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health. I think [having] good romantic relationships, but even friendships and family, around you and having strong, supportive people around you helps you have an overall healthy lifestyle. — April Rose
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. — Suzanne Brockmann
I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability. — Jen Kirkman
Nothing prepared me for your smile — David Bowie
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary. — Mariella Frostrup
Love is friendship set to music. — Jackson Pollock
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings. — Tamora Pierce
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