"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

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

"Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!"

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."

"The best proof of love is trust."

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

"Love builds bridges where there are none."

Who dares deny that this is true:
The whole is more than all its parts?
A whole love than divided love,
Or than half love from fifty hearts?
Yet who dare either this deny:
The part is more than is the whole?
That treasures halved with one dear love
Are more than double to the soul?

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind."

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

"Where there is love there is life."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

We are shaped and fashioned by what [whom] we love.

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."

"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

"Do all things with love."

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."

Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk.
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too."

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.