You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms

can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantire

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasnt put there to stay Love isnt love 'Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)" (Thanks, Krystel)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. ~Cher

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middleaged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ~Paul Valry, Tel quel, 1943

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss

I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm's length on purpose, they'll always end up in your arms. ~Holly Nichole Miller

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~Franois, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. ~Amanda Bynes

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian

Let's play! We hold hands n spend time thinking about each other. Just DON'T fall in love, first one who does loses. ~Daniel Mananta