“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert Heinlein

“Love is not singular except in syllable.” ~ Marvin Taylor

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a

“Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.” ~ Ovid

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” ~ Mark Overby

“It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not

“A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.” ~ Nicholas de Chamfort

“Who, being loved, is poor?” ~ Oscar Wilde

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” ~ Michael Leunig

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” ~

“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.” ~ Miguel de Unamuno

“To lovers! – the have-been’s, the are-now’s, and the may-be’s.” ~ Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902

“Love is the law of life.” ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa

“A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.” ~ Mother Teresa

“When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them

“Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart.” ~ Ken Keyes

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” ~ Leo

“Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” ~ Karl Menninger

“Love is how you earn your wings.” ~ Karen Goldman

“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” ~ Margaret Atwood

“Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” ~ Julins Gordon

“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” ~

“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu

“A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.” ~ Latin Proverb

“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.” ~ Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism

“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.” ~ Malagasy Proverb

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” ~ Lynda Barry

“Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your

“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.” ~ Lord Dewar

“‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.” ~ Lord Byron

“Romance is dead – it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.” ~ Lisa Simpson,

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” ~ Kay Knudsen

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” ~ Jean Anouilh

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.” ~ John Bulwer

“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.”

“Love is why I came here in the first place.” ~ John Denver

“Love is real, real is love.” ~ John Lennon

“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.” ~ John Milton

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure

“Love is a friendship set to music.” ~ Joseph Campbell