Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

We are always inclined to love and care for that which we know.

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.

When you know my love, my love will warm you.

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

I rocked the cradle of love.

I love being with someone, taking care of someone.

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

When you love someone deeply, you give strength, and when you are loved deeply, you gain courage.

I think I like those who feel comfortable like a friend and also take good care of me like a mother.

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.