Love
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Bertrand Russell
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
-Anonymous
"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
-John Donne, "The Bait"
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
-Erich Fromm
"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
-Javan
"Do all things with love."
-Og Mandino
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is."
-Virgil
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
