"Everyone admits that love
is wonderful and necessary,
yet no one agrees
on just what it is."
-Diane Ackerman

"If it is your time,
love will track you down
like a cruise missile."
-Lynda Barry

"Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith."
-Adel Bestavros

"Love is a fire.
But whether it is going
to warm your hearth
or burn down your house,
you can never tell."
-Joan Crawford

"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words."
-Jerome Cummings

"Love does not consist
in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together
in the same direction."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The way to love anything
is to realize that it might be lost."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity,
the holiest right of the soul,
the golden link which binds us
to duty and truth, the re-deeming principle
that chiefly reconciles the heart of life,
and is prophetic of eternal good."
-Petrarch

"Love is ever the beginning of knowledge,
as fire is of light."
-Thomas Carlyle

"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given,
To lift from earth our low desire."
-George Gordon

"Look round our world;
behold the chain of love
Combining all below
and all above."
-Alexander Pope

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love."
-William Wordsworth Longfellow

"Even memory is not necessary for love.
There is a land of the living
and a land of the dead
and the bridge is love,
the only survival,
the only meaning."
-Thornton Niven Wilder

"Love isn't like a reservoir.
You'll never drain it dry.
It's much more like a natural spring.
The longer and the farther it flows,
the stronger, and the deeper
and the clearer it becomes."
-Eddie Cantor

"Don't shut love out by saying
it's impossible to find time.
Love is an unconditional gift ...
The quickest way to receive love,
is to give it ...
The quickest way to lose love,
is to hold it too tightly ...
The best way to keep love,
is to give it wings."
-Author Unknown

"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."
-Leo Buscaglia

"The best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce Brothers

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

"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."
-James Baldwin

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

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