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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” ~ Lynda Barry

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

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

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

“I don’t think you can keep someone you truly love at arm’s length on purpose, they’ll always end up in your arms.” ~ Holly Nichole

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” ~ Honore de Balzac

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” ~ Honore de Balzac

“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.” ~ Ice T

“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even

“I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.” ~ Jaesse Tyler

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” ~ James Baldwin

“as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used

“Love touches the soul and awakens a desire so powerful that even the most vigilant heart is lured by its radiance.” ~ Jamie Lynn Morris