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

When your heart speaks, take good notes. 
-- Judith Campbell

The heart has it's reasons that reason does not know. 
-- Blaise Pascal

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- 
only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything. 
-- Katherine Hepburn

"True love" isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially -- even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it. 
-- William R. Mattox, Jr.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. 
-- Albert Einstein 

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-- John Ruskin

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. 
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. 
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. 
-- Barbara DeAngelis 

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. 
-- Oscar Wilde

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. 
-- Bertrand Russell

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

The course of true love never did run smooth. 
-- William Shakespeare 

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned apart of their narcissism.
-- Sigmund Freud

The more you judge, the less you love. 
-- Honore de Balzac

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
-- Robert Bly

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. 
-- Rumi 

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. 
-- Zora Neale Hurston 

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.
-- Helen Hayes

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. 
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel 

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius

The despair among the loveless is that they must narcotize themselves before they can touch any human being at all. 
-- James Baldwin

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives it ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
-- William Blake

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. 
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is not absence death to those who love?
-- Alexander Pope

Those who are loved live poorly and in danger. Ah, that they might surmount themselves and become lovers. Around those who love is sheer security. No one casts suspicion on them anymore, and they themselves are not in a position to betray themselves or each other. 
-- Ranier Maria Rilke

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rosseau

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, Good God, what have I said? and then I knew it was true. 
-- Bertrand Russell

Doubt thou the stars are fine
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth be a liar
But never doubt I love
-- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. 
-- Henry Drummond

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. 
-- C.S. Lewis

Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
-- Brooks Atkinson

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always walk in armor. 
-- Margaret Fuller

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
-- Jacques Maritain

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of a being?
-- Igor Stravinsky

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
-- Robert A. Heinlein

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. 
-- Mignon McLaughlin

Swedenborg teaches us that love makes us free, and I can bear witness to its power of lifting us out of the isolation to which we seem condemned. When the idea of an active, all controlling love lays hold of us, we become masters, creators of good, helpers of our kind. It is as if the dark had sent forth a star to draw us to heaven. We discover in ourselves many undeveloped resources of will and thought. Checked, hampered, failing again and again, we rise above the barriers that bound and confine us, our lives put on serenity and order. 
-- Hellen Keller

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When two people understand each other in their innermost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.
-- I Ching

My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy.
-- J. Barnes

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
-- Joan Crawford

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blowsout the candle and blows up the bonfire.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
-- Marie Dressler

He is not a lover who does not love forever.
-- Euripides

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
-- Albert Ellis

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
-- Khalil Gibran

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
-- Martin Luther King

Love...is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
-- Iris Murdoch

I hold it true, whatever befall; 
I feel it, when I sorrow most; 
'Tis better to have loved and lost 
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
-- Harold Hulbert 

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving ones ego except by love. 
-- J. W. Von Goethe

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love. People are extremely tender inside, particularly those who act as if they are tough and self-sufficient. And if we'll listen to them with the third ear, the heart, they'll tell us so. We can gain even more by showing love, particularly unconditional love, as this gives people a sense of intrinsic worth and security unrelated to conforming behavior or comparisons with others. Many borrow their security and strength from external appearances, status symbols, positions, achievements and associations. But borrowing strength inevitably builds weakness. We all distrust superficial human relations techniques and manipulative success formulas that are separated from sincere love. 
-- Stephen R. Covey