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

      ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
      ~ Mother Teresa

   Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
      ~ Steve Winwood 
 

   Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
      ~ Cathy Carlyle 
 

   Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
      ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

   Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
      ~ Benjamin Disraeli

   Find the person who will love you because of your differences and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
      ~ Leo Buscaglia

   Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
      ~ Henry Kissinger

   To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.
      ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
      ~ Lao Tzu

   The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
      ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel

   Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us.
      ~ Thomas Trahern

   Love is always bestowed as a gift --
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
      ~ Leo Buscaglia
 

   It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
      ~ William Thackeray

   Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
      ~ Fulton J. Sheen

   We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place
in ourselves for those who love us.
      ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

   Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
      ~ Elbert Hubbard

   The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
      ~ Victor Hugo

   There is no instinct like that of the heart.
      ~ Lord Byron

   We are all born for love...
it is the principle existence and it's only end.
      ~ Disraeli

   To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
      ~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell

   We can only learn to love by loving.
      ~ Iris Murdoch

   May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
      ~ L.O. Baird

   Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
      ~ Mother Teresa

   The dedicated life is the life worth living.
You must give with your whole heart.
      ~ Anne Dillard

   Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
      ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

   You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
      ~ Sam Keen

   What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
      ~ Henry Ward Beecher

   Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
      ~ Franklin P. Jones

   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 

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