1. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. —Robert A. Heinlein
1. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. —Robert A. Heinlein
3. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. —Gautama Buddha
4. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is a quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. —Ann Landers
5. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. —Lao Tzu
6. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
7. Our first and last love is self-love. —Christian Nestell Bovee
8. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. —Henry Drummond
9. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. —Maya Angelou
10. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. —Dalai Lama
11. The more one judges, the less one loves. —Honoré de Balzac
12. The first duty of love is to listen. —Paul Tillich
13. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. —James A. Baldwin
14. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. —Barbara de Angelis
15. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. —C.S. Lewis
16. Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. —Karl A. Menninger
17. The best proof of love is trust. —Joyce Brothers
18. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. —Oscar Wilde
19. The giving of love is an education in itself. —Eleanor Roosevelt
20. There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. —John Lennon
21. Thoughts not only about happy, romantic love but also the love between friends and family. And about the love that is often neglected or pushed to the side: the love you have for yourself.
22. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
23. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
24. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
25. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. — Morrie Schwartz
26. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. — Lord Byron
27. If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Herman Hesse
28. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. — Roy Croft
29. Love is a friendship set to music. — Joseph Campbell
30 We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31 When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. — Blaise Pascal
32. Love in its essence is spiritual fire. — Seneca
33. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
34 It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. — Eleanor Roosevelt
35. Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. — Leo Buscaglia
36. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou
37. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. — George Sand
38. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi
39 Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. — Lao Tzu
40. You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. — Julia Roberts
41 At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
42 If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Tennyson
43. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. — Marcus Aurelius