1. "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain" William Shakespeare in Venus & Adonis
2. "Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless". Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), German monk, mystic, in The Imitation of Christ, pt. 3, ch. 6 (1471).
3. "Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women like to be a man’s last romance". Oscar Wilde
4. "We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities". Jacques Jacques Maritain
5. "The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." Oscar Wilde
6."Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more." Erica Jong
7. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition". Alexander Smith
8. "For those who love... time is eternity..." Henry Van Dyke
9. "Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." Carl Jung
10. "Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ’maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love". Neil Gaiman
11. "True love should be lived like an imperfect circle that has its bumps but never ends."
12. "Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle." Crystal Middlemas
13. "Being deeply loved someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
14. "Love is a word, what matters is the connection that word implies". The Matrix Revolutions
15. "To fall in love is awfully simple, to fall out of love is simply awful."
16. "Love that is true never grows old." Elben Bano
17. "Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better". William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night (Act III, Scene I).
18. "Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit". Guy Debord
19. "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding". Bette Davis (1908-89), U.S. screen actor. The Lonely Life, ch. 19 (1962).
20. "Love is an art like music". Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925)
21. "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." Bill Wilson
22. "For every lover is, in his head, a madman and in his heart a minstrel" Neil Gaiman
23. "They say it is to know the union with love that the soul takes union with the body". Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 73
24. "I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." Rita Rudner
25. "The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo
26. "Real love stories never have endings." Richard Bach
27. "The power of a glance... It is in this way that love begins, and in this way only... Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark." Victor Hugo
28. "There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality." Francoise D’Aubegne Maintenon
29. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix
30. "The throb of life is love. Without it, humans are bodies of bones clad with skin". Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 80
31. "Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions". Woody Allen
32. "The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender." Emil Ludwig
33. "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Anonymous
34. "Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own". Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
35. "I never felt true love until I was with you, And I never felt true sadness until you left me."
36. "If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person." Matthew Ford
37. "The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing". Pascal
38. "Love said, ’Lie still and think of me’. Sleep said, ’Close your eyes till break of day’. But Dreams came by, and smilingly gave both to Love and Sleep their way." Sara Teasdale
39. "The course of true love never did run smooth." William Shakespeare
40. "Real love isn’t blind. It sees, sees everything but loves anyway."
41. "Love is like a river, always changing, but always finding you again somewhere down the road." Kelly Elaine
42. "All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self-infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond". Nisargadatta Maharaj
43. "Oh, we’re actually very different, ergo one of a kind. But together we form some kind of strange mass of "wtf" which IS one of a kind".
44. "Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest". Eleanor Farjeon
45. "Love is the capability to evoke your loved one’s love" Chinese
46. "You know when you listen to music playing from another room? And you’re singing along because it’s a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes by so you can’t hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway...then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again, you’re still in the exact same time with it. That’s what love is like." Anonymous
47. "With true love come no doubts, no jealousy, and no worries."
48. "This is the very ecstasy of love" William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.1
49. "Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life." Lord Byron
50. "Love is a light that shines from heart to heart." John Denver