"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." -Victor Hugo
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another." -Jonathan Swift
"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love." -Whitney Moore, Jr.
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anon
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place." -Anon
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson
"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha
"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." -Henry Drummond
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." -Baha'u'llah
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard
"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." -Anon
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." -Anna Louise Strong
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -Thomas Paine
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anon
"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me." -Sloan Wilson
"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature." -Stephen Stills
"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
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." -Bertrand Russell
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." -Anais Nin
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection." -Sidney Poitier
"There is only one terminal dignity -- love." -Helen Hayes
"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." -Albert Ellis
"The best proof of love is trust." -Joyce Brothers