Pietro Metastasio Quotes

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.

At the heart of all things is love.

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Love is something you fall into.

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment.

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love