"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

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." -- William M. Thackeray

"Who are the twelve most loving people you know? Why? What can you learn and duplicate from them?" -- Mark Victor Hansen

"Love is by far the most important thing of all." -- Brian Tracy

You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself! – Jean Anouilh

Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is, Or soft as eiderdown fluff? Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges? O tell me the truth about love – WH Auden

How in hell can you handle love Without turning your life upside down? That’s whet love does, it changes everything – Lauren Bacall

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. – Julian Barnes

The fate of love is that it always seems to little or too much. – Amelia E Barr

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, Wipe out every trace of him, Dispossess him of his shadow, Drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. – Jean Baudrillard

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. – Bible: I Corinthians

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; but for another gives its’ ease And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair – William Blake

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees – My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath; - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, But it is very rate because most people are strategists. – Anita Brookner

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune – Robert Burns

In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love – Lord Byron

If grass can grow through cement, Love can find you at every time in your life – Cher

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away – Louis de Bernieres

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath – Emily Dickinson

The magic of first love is our Ignorance that it can ever end. – Benjamin Disraeli