”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde
”It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach
”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm
”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael
”Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm
”Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael
”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid
”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis
”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward
”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne
”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius
”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou
”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne
”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal
”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein
”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox
”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou
”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot
”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald
”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae
”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne
”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland
”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac
”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe
”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym
”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton
”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov
”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein
”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon
”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton
”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner
”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles
”For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ” Judy Garland
”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.
”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw
”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia
”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino
”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh
”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover
”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi
”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach
”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato
”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis
”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle
Madame de Stael
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning
