“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to

“You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.” ~ Werner Erhard

“True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.” ~

“What “love” is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another.” ~ William Carlos Williams

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” ~ William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI”

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston

“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.” ~ Ursula K. Le

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” ~ Rose Franken

“Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ~ Victor

“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” ~ Samuel Lover

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” ~ Voltaire

“Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate!” ~ Sandra J. Dykes

“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham

“It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash.” ~ Swami Chetanananda

“Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.” ~ Swedish Proverb

“I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” ~ Thich Nhat

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we

“I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.” ~ Thomas Moore

“Platonic love is love from the neck up.” ~ Thyra Smater Winsolow

“The love game is never called off on account of darkness.” ~ Tom Masson

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~ Tom Robbins

“Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face.” ~ Tony Hendra, “Deteriorata”

“Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint.” ~ Turkish Proverb

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” ~ Pearl Bailey

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

“When love is not madness, it is not love.” ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” ~ Peter Ustinov

“The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato

“An old man in love is like a flower in winter.” ~ Portuguese Proverb

“Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.” ~ Proverb

“Love is metaphysical gravity.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they

“Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.” ~ Rita Rudner

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” ~ Paul McCartney

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning

“Love is being stupid together.” ~ Paul Valery

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ~ Robert Frost

“Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.” ~ Paul-Jean Toulet

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up

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