1. Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - Karl A. Menninger
2. One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. - Karl A. Menninger
3. Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. - Ben Hecht
4. Love is a hole in the heart. - Ben Hecht
5. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. - Helen Rowland
6. There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. - May Sarton
7. Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
8. We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch
9. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. - Torquato Tasso
10. Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. - Torquato Tasso
11. Any time not spent on love is wasted. - Torquato Tasso
12. I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. - Leslie Fiedler
13. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh
14. Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. - Sarah Bernhardt
15. It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. - Shirley MacLaine
16. If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
17. Love is stronger than justice. - Sting
18. The crime of loving is forgetting. - Maurice Chevalier
19. Our first and last love is self-love. - Christian Nestell Bovee
20. A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. - Cyrano de Bergerac
21. Great thoughts come from the heart. - Luc de Clapiers
22. We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
23. Love is suffering. One side always loves more. - Catherine Deneuve
24. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann
25. To good and true love fear is forever affixed. - Francois Rabelais
26. Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. - Francois Rabelais
27. The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. - Helen Hayes
28. All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. - Andre Breton
29. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. - Andre Breton
30. 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. - George Jean Nathan
31. Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. - George Jean Nathan
32. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
33. Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor
34. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. - David Wilkerson
35. Self-love is the source of all our other loves. - Pierre Corneille
36. Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. - Gilbert Parker
37. Love has a tide! - Helen Hunt Jackson
38. When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. - Helen Hunt Jackson
39. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. - Max Muller
40. The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up. - Max Muller
41. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey
42. Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. - John Gay
43. You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. - Werner Erhard
44. Stolen kisses are always sweetest. - Leigh Hunt
45. Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. - Arthur Rimbaud
46. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
47. There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. - Alphonse de Lamartine
48. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine
49. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. - Diane Ackerman
50. Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. - Javan
51. The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. - Hans Urs von Balthasar
52. If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. - Kristin Chenoweth
53. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. - Louise L. Hay
54. To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. - Robert Burton
55. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. - Tammy Wynette
56. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. - Tammy Wynette
57. 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
58. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. - Henry Drummond
59. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. - Ray Stannard Baker
60. Being in love is the only transcendent experience. - Armistead Maupin
61. My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. - Nicholas Sparks
62. I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. - Nicholas Sparks
63. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. - John Ciardi
64. Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. - Aphra Behn
65. Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. - Aphra Behn
66. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. - Lynda Barry
67. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald
68. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. - Amelia Barr
69. Love is never wrong. - Melissa Etheridge
70. It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. - Muriel Spark
71. When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. - Maurice Maeterlinck
72. For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. - Marie de France
73. Love comes unseen; we only see it go. - Henry Austin Dobson
74. Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. - Samuel Lover
75. To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - Theophile Gautier
76. There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. - Charles Morgan
77. I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. - Theodore Dreiser
78. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst
79. The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. - John Cheever
80. All love is lost but upon God alone. - William Dunbar
81. It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love. - Connie Stevens
82. The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. - Lydia M. Child
83. Love means to commit yourself without guarantee. - Anne Campbell
84. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius
85. One must not trifle with love. - Alfred de Musset
86. The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. - Bryan Procter
87. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. - Natalie Clifford Barney
88. Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. - Erich Segal
89. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal
90. Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. - Francis Beaumont
91. Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. - Thomas Shadwell
92. Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give. - Kim Casali
93. If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live. - Kim Casali
94. There is no limit to the power of loving. - John Morton
95. How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. - Barbara Pym
96. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
97. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
98. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
99. 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
100. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. - Steve Jobs
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