love

1. Who is it that says most? which can say more
   Than this rich praise - that you alone are you?
   ~ Shakespeare, sonnet 84

2. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without, and we know we cannot live within.
   ~ James Baldwin

3. There is a comfort in the strength of love;
   'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
   Would overset the brain, or break the heart.
   ~ William Wordsworth

4. The eyes, those silent tongues of love.
   ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote

5. Absense is to love what wind is to a flame. It extinguishes the smallest ember, but feeds the established blaze.
   

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

7. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
   ~ W.H. Auden

8. If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
   And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
   The age to come would say, "This poet lies:
   Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces."
   ~William Shakespeare

9. 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 of little love.
   ~ Eric Fromm

10. One word
    frees us from all the weight and pain of life:
    that word is love.
    ~ Sophocles

11. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.
    ~ Unknown

12. We come to love, not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
    ~ Anonymous

13. When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.
    ~ Heloise (c. 1098-1164); letter to Abelard

14. Love will teach us all things: but we must learn how to win love; it is got with difficulty; it is a possession dearly bought with much labour and a long time; for one must love not sometimes only, for a passing moment, but always. And let not man's sin dishearten thee: love a man even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summmit of love on earth.
    ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

15. In love the separate does remain, but as something united, and no longer as something separate.
    ~ Hegel

16. She knew she was by him beloved, ~ she knew
    For quickly comes such knowledge that his heart
    Was darkened with her shadow.
    ~ Byron, The Dream

17. Only choose in marriage someone whom you would otherwise choose as a friend.
    ~ Joseph Joubert

18. Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
    ~ Kahlil Gibran

19. If we really want to love, we must learn to forgive.
    ~ Mother Teresa

20. To love another person is to help them love God.
    ~ Soren Kierkegaard

21. Love is like rain. It comes in a drizzle. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
    ~ Edwidge Danticatt, Breath Eyes Memory

22. Everything I understand, I understand only because I love.
    ~ Leo Tolstoy

23. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
    ~ Ingrid Bergman

24. The heart is forever inexperienced.
    ~ Henry David Thoreau

25. We forgive to the extent that we love.
    ~ La Rochefoucauld

26. The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
    ~ C.S. Lewis

27. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love.
    ~ Mother Teresa

28. An act of love may tip the balance.
    ~ Elie Wiesel