"Love, love, love--that is the soul of genius." ~ Amadeus Mozart
To be loved is very demoralizing. ~ Katharine Hepburn
You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you. ~ Julie de L'Espirasse
You see, I asked myself one day, according to your heart, what is it you must do? And I answered it and have been smiling ever since. ~ Alex Beauchamp
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~ Albert Ellis
Like a mountain whirlwind punishing the oak trees, love shattered my heart. ~ Sappho
Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life. ~ Harrison Ford
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers. ~ George Santayana
Those alone are wise who know how to love. ~ Senecca
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ~ G. K. Chesterton
I have for the first time found what I can truly love-- I have found you. You are my sympathy--my better self--my good angel--I am bound to you with a strong attachment. ~ Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. ~ Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ~ James Baldwin
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ~ Barbara De Angelis
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free, not only outside but also inside. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when? ~ Yasunari Kawabata
