People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
- Douglas Yates

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

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 at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Kahlil Gibran

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Julins Gordon

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 certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
- Sylvester Stallone

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo

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

Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
- Grey Livingston

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Love builds bridges where there are none.
- R.H. Delaney

Love is like a bed of roses, there are many thorns. The path to true happiness lies in learning to avoid the thorns, while enjoying the roses.
- Lillian Carol Russell

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
- Brandan Behan

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
-Eric Fromm

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Kahlil Gibran

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh

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

Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts
- Phillip Pulfrey

The best thing about loving and being hurt is that you get to know what true love really is. For as gold is tested in fire, and so will love be perfected in pain.
- Marvin Jay M. Torres

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one - neglect.
- James D. Bryden

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love.
- Henry Miller

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
- Ann Landers

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
- James Thurber

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
- George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Samuel Butler

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
- Dr. Karl Enage