Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Love is being stupid together.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

To love is to act.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Who loves, raves.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

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

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

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

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.