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Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Hurston, Zora Neale

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
Hemingway, Ernest

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.
Baldwin, James

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
Author, Unknown

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Shaw, George Bernard

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Atwood, Margaret

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Author, Unknown

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
Santayana, George

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
More, Sir Thomas

And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us.
Al-Ghazzali, Abu Hamid

I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Author, Unknown

Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
Donne, John

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Tolstoy, Leo

Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Winsolow, Thyra Smater

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Gorky, Maxim

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Allen, Woody

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
Allen, Woody

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
McLaughlin, Mignon

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Shakespeare, William

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Chevalier, Maurice

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you.
Unknown, Author

He that is not jealous is not in love.
Augustine, St.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
T, Ice

In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
deFleur, Emma Racine

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La

Hate punishes love.
Yeux-verdi, Abbe

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Simpson, Lisa

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
Unknown, Author

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
Aerosmith

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Morgan, Charles

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
Unknown, Author

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
Calverton, V.F.

Love floods us with hope.
Teague, Jareb

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
Unknown, Author

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
Moore, Hannah

Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
Whitman, Walt

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
Gay, John

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

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Watterson, Bill

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
Teague, Jareb

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Author, Unknown

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

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
McLaughlin, Mignon

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
Proverb, Arabic

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
Viorst, Judith

Love is metaphysical gravity.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Allen, Woody

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
Timrod, Henry

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Hecht, Ben

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Bailey, Pearl

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Unknown, Author

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Nathan, George Jean

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.
Unknown, Author

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
Proverb

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Lee, Bruce

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
Rubero, Christopher Paul

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
Unknown, Author

Loving is never a waste of time.
Alauda, Astrid

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

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Bulwer, John

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Eldridge, Paul

I mean, listen, Mom and Dad love children in the Muslim world just like we do in America, and they've got to understand that - that there are some common beliefs that we share that will make - and the Peace Corps is a good way to spread that message.
Bush, George W.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
de Chamfort, Nicholas

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
Herbert, George

Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble.
Unknown, Author

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Brown, Charlie

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Byrne, David

There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.
deFleur, Emma Racine

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Author, Unknown

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Farmer, Hoosier

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Proverb, Swedish

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Atwood, Margaret

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
Gray, Charlotte

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Teresa, Mother

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Valois, Marguerite de

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
Author, Unknown

When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.
Arch, Jeff

Love is the poetry of the senses.
de Balzac, Honore

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Keats, John

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.
LeGuin, Ursula K.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Montaigne, Michel de

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die. You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Cella, Rob

The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Near, Holly

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
Salinger, J. D.

A loving heart heals hate.
Teague, Jareb