Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

I think love is blind. You don't see it; you don't hear what people are saying or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.