There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle
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. Rainer Maria Rilke
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. William Shakespeare
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
If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened – even if you’d already lost each other forever – you owed each other the truth. Claudia Gray
People get stupid when they’re in love. Claudia Gray
You’re in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren’t in love. Claudia Gray
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. K. Rowling
After all, what was more important, in the end, than love? Stephenie Meyer
There’s no good story without romance. Stephenie Meyer
Love is irrational, the more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. Stephenie Meyer
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Albert Einstein
Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. Margaret Walker
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. Mary Calderone
Tell me who admires and loves you, And I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth
Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Mignon McLaughlin
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Woodrow Wyatt
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Francis de Sales
The life and love we create is the life and love we live. Leo Buscaglia
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Arthur Wing Pinero
We are all born for love… it is the principle existence and it’s only end. Benjamin Disraeli
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. Ivan Panin
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. Ann Landers
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. Mangnu Hirschfield
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give oneself… this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. Barbara De Angelis
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. Lord Byron
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. Marguerite De Valois
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. Willa Cather
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson
Love is the history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in man’s. Germaine De Stael
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. Blaise Pascal
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Augustine
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
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
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. Germaine De Stael
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
We need not think alike to love alike. Francis David
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. Jacques Benigne Bossuel
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck
Where there is love there is life. Mohandas K. Gandhi
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. Henry Drummond
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
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
There is no instinct like that of the heart. Lord Byron
