Love Is Quotes

‘Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.’ – James Baldwin

‘Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.’ – Aristotle

‘Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is 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

‘We are born of love; Love is our mother.’ – Rumi

‘Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.’ – Stevie Wonder

‘Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.’ – Maya Angelou

‘True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Love is a serious mental disease.’ – Plato

‘Love is friendship set on fire.’ – Jeremy Taylor

‘Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.’ – Lord Byron

‘Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.’ – John Lennon

‘The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.’ – Loretta Young

‘True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.’ – Taylor Swift

‘The best proof of love is trust.’ – Joyce Brothers

‘Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.’ – Yogi Berra

‘Love is a friendship set to music.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.’ – Anna Louise Strong

‘Life is the flower for which love is the honey.’ – Victor Hugo

‘True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.’ – Voltaire

‘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

‘Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.’ – Alan Watts

‘Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.’ – Sai Baba

‘The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.’ – Duke Ellington

‘Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘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

‘Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘The giving of love is an education in itself.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Life is a game and true love is a trophy.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.’ – Jack Layton

‘When love is not madness, it is not love.’ – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.’ – Ariana Grande

‘Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.’ – Helen Keller

‘Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.’ – Washington Irving

‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.’ – Robert Frost

‘Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.’ – William Shakespeare

‘For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.’ – Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘Love is so short, forgetting is so long.’ – Pablo Neruda

‘Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.’ – Jules Renard

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

‘Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.’ – Woody Allen

‘Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone – but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘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

‘Love is the greatest refreshment in life.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘Love is the only gold.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.’ – Michael Novak

‘Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.’ – David Wilkerson

‘Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.’ – A. J. McLean

‘Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.’ – Richard Burton

‘Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘Love is a reciprocal torture.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.’ – St. Jerome

‘Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘This love is silent.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.’ – Petrarch

‘I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.’ – Tori Spelling

‘Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Passion is momentary; love is enduring.’ – John Wooden

‘Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘And love is love in beggars and in kings.’ – Edward Dyer

‘They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.’ – Neil Strauss

‘Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Love is being stupid together.’ – Paul Valery

‘Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.’ – John le Carre

‘The first duty of love is to listen.’ – Paul Tillich

‘Love is metaphysical gravity.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Our first and last love is self-love.’ – Christian Nestell Bovee

‘Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.’ – Julius Gordon

‘Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.’ – Laura Ingalls Wilder

‘What is essential in love is what the French call ‘amour fou.’ What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn’t sound as beautiful. It’s a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.’ – Mario Vargas Llosa

‘The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.’ – Warren Buffett

‘Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.’ – Matt Groening

‘Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.’ – Phil Jackson

‘Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!’ – Suzanne Brockmann

‘Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.’ – Ben Hecht

‘When love is deep, much can be accomplished.’ – Shinichi Suzuki

‘Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.’ – William Cowper

‘To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.’ – Theophile Gautier

‘Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.’ – Alexander Smith

‘It’s not the size of the house. It’s how much love is inside.’ – Martina McBride

‘Love is a game that two can play and both win.’ – Eva Gabor

‘Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.’ – Th√©r√®se of Lisieux

‘Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘Love is a better teacher than duty.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The art of love is largely the art of persistence.’ – Albert Ellis

‘My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.’ – Marla Gibbs

‘God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? – Lily Tomlin’ – Lily Tomlin

‘Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Cooking well, with love, is an art.’ – Asha Bhosle

‘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

‘Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.’ – Alain de Botton

‘The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.’ – James Joyce

‘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

‘With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.’ – Britney Spears

‘I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I’ve realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn’t make you give up half of yourself.’ – Kehlani

‘Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.’ – Billie Holiday

‘Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.’ – Euripides

‘Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.’ – Walter Scott

‘Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.’ – David Icke

‘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

‘If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.’ – Yakov Smirnoff

‘Love is the river of life in the world.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.’ – Roxane Gay

‘Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.’ – Ayn Rand

‘Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.’ – Samuel Daniel

‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.’ – James Thurber

‘I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it’s the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.’ – Mac Miller

‘Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.’ – Julia Roberts

‘Love is the bond of perfection.’ – John Winthrop

‘Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘Love is all you need.’ – Paul McCartney

‘Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.’ – Ovid

‘Ultimately love is everything.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don’t. I think love is like a lottery.’ – Kylie Minogue

‘But love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.’ – bell hooks

‘I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn’t define you until the end… The way you end your story is important. It’s important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.’ – Tom Robbins

‘Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.’ – Lope de Vega

‘Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.’ – Pearl Bailey

‘Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.’ – Boethius

‘What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom!’ – Laurie Anderson

‘Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.’ – Truman Capote

‘Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.’ – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

‘My true love is the Lakers – once a Laker, always a Laker.’ – George Mikan

‘Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.’ – George Best

‘Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.’ – Koena Mitra

‘Every woman’s path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother’s love is withering.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Love is blind.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.’ – Aristophanes

‘To me, a forever love is a bond that can’t be broken.’ – Nick Cannon

‘As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don’t speak.’ – Indya Moore

‘Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.’ – Gerald Jampolsky

‘Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.’ – Joan Crawford

‘Love is more important than material possessions.’ – Thomas F. Wilson

‘Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets in the way is circumstance, history, what each person has gone through.’ – Adrian Lester

‘Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.’ – Vicky Kaushal

‘Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.’ – Bess Myerson

‘You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.’ – Josh Turner

‘Love is not selfish. Love is something else.’ – Morten Tyldum

‘If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance.’ – Mary Lambert

‘What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.’ – Jose Ortega y Gasset

‘Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘Love is inconvenient. Love is untidy. Love is relentless, ruthless and rapacious. Done well, it’s hilarious, playful and redemptive.’ – Gina Barreca

‘Look your best – who said love is blind? – Mae West’ – Mae West

‘Love is everywhere.’ – Bethenny Frankel

‘Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.’ – Ani DiFranco

‘Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.’ – Marilyn French

‘A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘Love is my religion – I could die for it.’ – John Keats

‘Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.’ – Theodore Roethke

‘We love even when our love is not requited.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.’ – Lawrence Durrell

‘True love is forever.’ – Fabio Lanzoni

‘I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy – I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.’ – Irvin D. Yalom

‘To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.’ – Jorge Luis Borges

‘Love is energy of life.’ – Robert Browning

‘To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.’ – Robert Burton

‘Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.’ – Felix Adler

‘Love is not just tolerance. It’s not just distant appreciation. It’s a warm sense of, ‘I am enjoying the fact that you are you.” – N. T. Wright

‘The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.’ – John Cheever

‘Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don’t exist.’ – Hrithik Roshan

‘I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I’m tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I’m tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I’d rather stay in bed, then it’s time to go.’ – Dirk Nowitzki

‘Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.’ – Bryant H. McGill

”Back To Love’ is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it’s a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.’ – Anthony Hamilton

‘Love is a great beautifier.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.’ – Lynda Barry

‘Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.’ – Dante Gabriel Rossetti

‘My pure love is playing music.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.’ – Jojo Moyes

‘I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.’ – John Legend

‘I know that love is real when it’s not convenient, when it’s not selfish, when it’s challenged, sometimes even if it’s not reciprocated.’ – Viola Davis

‘Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘Many of us have felt that sense of desperation – of urgency – when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.’ – Ron Johnson

‘Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.’ – Theodor Reik

‘Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?’ – Emily Bronte

‘Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.’ – Fulton J. Sheen

‘Love is the one wild card.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.’ – Octavio Paz

‘Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.’ – John Lydon

‘There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘By itself, love is never enough to sustain a relationship.’ – Mark Manson

‘Being in love is the only transcendent experience.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.’ – Stendhal

‘The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.’ – Chris Sullivan

‘The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.’ – Kate Millett

‘Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.’ – Dick Gregory

‘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

‘Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.’ – Al Goldstein

‘The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.’ – Richard Le Gallienne

‘I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.’ – John Perry Barlow

‘Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.’ – Toni Morrison

‘Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.’ – Sophia Loren

‘Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it’s not that love is connected to violence but there’s a possibility.’ – Takashi Miike

‘Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It’s money that’s dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.’ – John Dos Passos

‘Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.’ – Julian Baggini

‘I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It’s about timing, fate, failure, redemption.’ – Jim Sturgess

‘Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.’ – Lemmy

‘Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.’ – John Lennon

‘Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Love is not my bag.’ – Gore Vidal

‘Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.’ – Inga Muscio

‘The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it’s ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they’re attacking the center of your being.’ – Tony Kushner

‘Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.’ – Wale

‘Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.’ – Nathaniel Branden

‘Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.’ – DJ Khaled

‘Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.’ – Andreas Capellanus

‘Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.’ – Saint Bernard

‘Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.’ – William Shakespeare

‘First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.’ – Marge Piercy

‘Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.’ – Mandy Moore

‘Love is love’s reward.’ – John Dryden

‘Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.’ – Bessie Head

‘You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.’ – Henri Matisse

‘The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Love is the highest frequency we can operate on.’ – Raheem DeVaughn

‘Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us – even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.’ – Ray Charles

‘Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Love is a dangerous commodity – fraught with peril.’ – Robert Indiana

‘There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.’ – Sean Lennon

‘Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.’ – William Penn

‘Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Romantic love is an addiction.’ – Helen Fisher

‘Love is a promise delivered already broken.’ – Steve Martin

‘Sometimes love is stronger than a man’s convictions.’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘Love is trembling happiness.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Love is a kind of warfare.’ – Ovid

‘It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood – no more – to man, and love to a woman is life or death.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Fantasy love is much better than reality love.’ – Andy Warhol

‘One thing about Syracuse, whatever you’re going through, the love is unconditional.’ – Dion Waiters

‘Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label ‘love’ is not a simple feeling, it’s a very complex one. Under the heading ‘love’ can come all sorts of rage and desperation.’ – Helen Garner

‘Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.’ – Jerome K. Jerome

‘Love is a competition. If you don’t think so, then you’re crazy, because why are you dressing up, why are you wearing those heels, why are you wearing that $400 perfume? Why are you shaving your chest and eating 40,000 egg whites?’ – Chris Harrison

‘Jay-Z, for a lot of reasons, will always be my favorite. But actually, in terms of what I listen to, it bends towards hip-hop, but I like everything. The only thing I don’t really love is country, but everything else I’m a huge fan of.’ – Sue Bird

‘Love is – OK, it’s 20 things, but it isn’t 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘You don’t know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don’t have a child, you don’t know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.’ – Regina King

‘When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.’ – Aphra Behn

‘Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.’ – Judith Viorst

‘Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.’ – Yash Chopra

‘Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.’ – Margaret Cho

‘Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.’ – Andre Breton

‘Love is not always bed of roses. When its unfulfilled, it causes immense pain and anger.’ – Ankit Tiwari

‘Love is suffering. One side always loves more.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.’ – Stephen Levine

‘Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.’ – Jean Racine

‘The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.’ – Robert Bly

‘Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.’ – Danielle Steel

‘Love is always being given where it is not required.’ – E. M. Forster

‘Love is more powerful than kicking ass.’ – Jet Li

‘I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.’ – Nina Simone

‘Love is a very strong emotion and a very powerful emotion.’ – Josephine Langford

‘The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.’ – Israel Zangwill

‘I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.’ – Juanes

‘Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.’ – Jose Bergamin

‘The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.’ – E. W. Howe

‘Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.’ – Anita Brookner

‘The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother’s love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.’ – Richard Gere

‘Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it’s not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.’ – Lauryn Hill

‘Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Love is three quarters curiosity.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that’s so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?’ – Rupi Kaur

‘I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.’ – Conor Oberst

‘Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.’ – Ram Dass

‘Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.’ – Hans Urs von Balthasar

‘Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.’ – Iman

‘Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.’ – Charles Peguy

‘The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that you’re really not. Real love is different.’ – Adriana Lima

‘People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.’ – Ken Kesey

‘Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.’ – Robert Carlyle

‘Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.’ – Jay Shetty

‘Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.’ – Anthony Trollope

‘In my opinion, love is not about gender, it’s not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries.’ – Bill Kaulitz

‘Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.’ – Jacques Maritain

‘Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.’ – Jose Marti

‘Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.’ – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

‘Love is the beauty of the soul.’ – Saint Augustine

‘The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.’ – Rumi

‘I think it’s very important for young women, young people and older people as well, to know that love is important, but it’s also important to find a partner who respects you and loves you the way you deserve to be treated.’ – Jessica Rothe

‘Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.’ – Junot Diaz

‘The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.’ – Alain de Botton

‘The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are – which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.’ – Ted Lieu

‘I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.’ – Erich Fromm

‘To love is to act.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Love is space and time measured by the heart.’ – Marcel Proust

‘To fail to love is not to exist at all.’ – Mark Van Doren

‘Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.’ – Plato

‘Love is the poetry of the senses.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘My first love is football. When I get the chance, I play football for fitness.’ – Fidel Edwards

‘We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative.’ – Andrew Solomon

‘It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.’ – Dan Pallotta

‘Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Love is not consolation. It is light.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Love is based on imagination.’ – Olivier Martinez

‘Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.’ – Matt Groening

‘Love is often the fruit of marriage.’ – Moliere

‘Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.’ – James Spader

‘Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.’ – David Frost

‘Love is a very big word.’ – Tobias Menzies

‘Romantic love is just one aspect of love.’ – Ann Wilson

‘Love is a hole in the heart.’ – Ben Hecht

‘Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.’ – Uma Thurman

‘Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.’ – Aretha Franklin

‘It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found – not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘A family’s love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.’ – John Delaney

‘Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart! – Torquato Tasso’ – Torquato Tasso

‘Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.’ – BeBe Winans

‘The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.’ – Mark Manson

‘Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.’ – John Barrymore

‘To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!’ – Edmund Waller

‘Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it’s not yours anymore. It’s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.’ – Ville Valo

‘Love is never stationary.’ – Bob Goff

‘If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.’ – Lauren London

‘On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.’ – Edith Stein

‘Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.’ – Tom Robbins

‘I think that making love is the best form of exercise.’ – Cary Grant

‘Loneliness sucks. It’s a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.’ – Lynn Coady

‘I think I was the only person in my experimental film class doing comedy. But my sense of humor and a lot of comedy that I love is quite surreal and strange, you know? You could argue that ‘Monty Python’ is experimental film. It just happens to be really funny.’ – Andy Samberg

‘I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to ‘fall out of love.” – bell hooks

‘To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.’ – Ovid

‘Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘If it wasn’t for music, I would think that love is mortal.’ – Mark Helprin

‘Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.’ – George Savile

‘Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘To be able to say how much love, is love but little.’ – Petrarch

‘The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.’ – Ellen Key

‘A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.’ – Lord Byron

‘Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.’ – Kim Casali

‘There aren’t really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It’s a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘Love is something that is very personal to each individual based on where they are in their lives. It fluctuates and changes over time.’ – Paul Wesley

‘Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘What I love is the comedy of the body. It’s a little highfalutin’, but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn’t brought to them via the spoken word. It’s from a different place; it’s a different quality of laughter.’ – Bill Irwin

‘The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm – it’s elation, it’s mood swings, and you’re killing all that when you take the drug.’ – Helen Fisher

‘If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Love is never wrong.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘The word ‘love’ is such a special thing.’ – James Haven

‘Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘Love is different at different stages of your life.’ – Harriet Walter

‘My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.’ – Sharon Tate

‘Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin – it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring.’ – S. J. Perelman

‘Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.’ – John Lennon

‘Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.’ – Emilie de Ravin

‘To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘The fact that I can travel around the world doing what I love is such a blessing. I’ve learned that traveling is such an important thing; there’s so many beautiful things out there and we get worried about such little things.’ – Gabriella Wilson

‘Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.’ – Pierre Beaumarchais

‘Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That’s why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.’ – Yakov Smirnoff

‘Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.’ – Vanessa Paradis

‘My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.’ – Martha Beck

”The Ways of a Woman in Love’ is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl’s house and wishing he was the one in her arms.’ – John Prine

‘Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.’ – Jenny Holzer

‘When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.’ – Stevie Wonder

‘Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.’ – Helen Rowland

‘We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!’ – Marie de France

‘Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘I think love is the through line and it’s universal and it doesn’t matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that’s something we all connect to. That’s the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.’ – Laura Marano

‘Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.’ – Michael Jackson

‘I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.’ – John Keats

‘It’s a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?’ – Mark Manson

‘Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.’ – Richard Rolle

‘Love is not in our choice but in our fate.’ – John Dryden

‘Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one ‘from love.’ Love is to rule.’ – Max Stirner

‘Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it. You’ll rarely find a happy ending in my work.’ – Krzysztof Kieslowski

‘Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.’ – Douglas Horton

‘Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To see what the poet shows, to smell what he describes and the urge to taste the intangible.’ – Shweta Basu Prasad

‘There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you.’ – Giorgio Armani

‘Love is a tyrant sparing none.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Craziest thing I’ve done for love is getting married. I think it’s crazy. I think it’s crazy, crazy, crazy. I’m never going to say I wouldn’t do it again but I have to make sure it’s love and not settling for the ‘I have to do this by a certain age,’ which is kind of what I did.’ – Jenny McCarthy

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

‘What I would love is for a normalization of queer characters on TV.’ – Stephanie Beatriz

‘First love is such a big thing growing up.’ – Adam F. Goldberg

‘What I love is Mexican hot chocolate, like a spicy hot chocolate – adding cayenne pepper to the Hershey’s cocoa and making a spicy-sweet treat.’ – Kimberly Williams-Paisley

‘Love is an interesting thing.’ – Lady Gaga

‘The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.’ – Frank Dukes

‘If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one’s friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘We’re trying to say that if you, in love, when you’re not true to yourself, the love won’t last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.’ – RM

‘When I wrote songs like ‘Everyone I Love is Dead,’ I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.’ – Peter Steele

‘Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘A film that I love is ‘Deliverance’ from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters – the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist – and by the end, it’s all turned upside down. I love that.’ – Frank Grillo

‘Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘Love is the cheapest of religions.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.’ – Mason Cooley

‘It’s easy to talk about how great love is or how you feel heartbroken after a breakup, but it’s not as easy to talk about the process of going through the end of a relationship.’ – Eric Nam

‘Any time not spent on love is wasted.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Love is universal, luckily, but also in general I’ve found that whenever I’ve been the most specific in my stand-up, revealing some weird neurosis or quirk I’m ashamed of, that’s what people relate to the most. Specificity is key!’ – Mae Martin

‘Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.’ – Erich Fromm

‘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

‘Accepting love is very hard. Giving out love is easy.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘All love is lost but upon God alone.’ – William Dunbar

‘Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.’ – Dakota Fanning

‘Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.’ – Anne Burrell

‘Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.’ – Lord Byron

‘Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.’ – Aberjhani

‘All love is unrequited. All of it.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘Love is a lifestyle. You have to become a representation of love. You have to become a pro-active contributor to love. I don’t think it’s something that you just sit back and wait on.’ – Musiq Soulchild

‘The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you.’ – Deng Ming-Dao

‘My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.’ – Delmore Schwartz

‘I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It’s a very subjective experience. And I’m loyal to that experience.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.’ – Marie de France

‘The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.’ – Amelia Barr

‘Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories… these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we’ve got the wrong story.’ – Alain de Botton

‘One athlete I absolutely love is Melissa Stockwell.’ – Jessica Long

‘Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘Only love is consistent because only love is unconditional.’ – KRS-One

‘For love that time was not as love is nowadays.’ – Thomas Malory

‘Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.’ – Lady Gaga

‘It’s funny, I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you’d realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don’t matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn’t matter.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.’ – Josh Hartnett

‘When love is suppressed hate takes its place.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.’ – George MacDonald

‘Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it’s loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There’s almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it’s a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it’s because your mother’s love is conditional or because you’re fundamentally different.’ – Mary H.K. Choi

‘Love is a game in which one always cheats.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can’t help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it’s one of the few great things about human beings.’ – David Crosby

‘Love is a peculiar thing.’ – Georg Buchner

‘Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.’ – Samuel Daniel

‘The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.’ – Maya Angelou

‘My mum thinks I’m amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.’ – Lily James

‘Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.’ – Phil Spector

‘My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that’s where I was born. I’ve always wanted to wrestle.’ – Kurt Angle

‘Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.’ – Nas

‘Love is a fickle thing. But I still believe in it.’ – Lil Dicky

‘You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.’ – Alice Walker

‘One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.’ – Kelsang Gyatso

‘What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we’re establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.’ – Phoebe Philo

‘With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.’ – Theo James

‘This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.’ – Richard Rolle

‘Love is an emotion. It can’t be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.’ – Marian Keyes

‘The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.’ – Tom Verlaine

‘Will Bridges, who is the co-creator with me, when we were working on ‘SuperBob,’ we were just talking about how we like to write about relationships. And we were talking about what love is. We were in very different stages; he was married and was about to have his first child, and I was kind of dating the wrong people.’ – Brett Goldstein

‘Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn’t be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.’ – Hugh Hefner

‘Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.’ – Matt Haig

‘My love is not measured in reciprocity. That’s not the way I learned love.’ – Indya Moore

‘As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘The problem often is that aspiring brands wish to be universally loved. Unfortunately, universal love is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, great brands are loved by some and hated by others because they actually stand for something.’ – Nirmalya Kumar

‘Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other’s faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.’ – Mark Manson

‘I’d love to perform in India, but I don’t book the gigs. It’s one of the few places I haven’t played. One of the Indian instruments that I love is the sitar. I played it on some of my songs, including ‘Pyramid of Cheops’ and ‘Crucify.” – Yngwie Malmsteen

‘What I love is dropping into someone else’s life and exploring it.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Love is what makes the world go around. I know it’s a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.’ – Gladys Knight

”Love Is Strange’ was just a beautiful experience in so many ways.’ – John Lithgow

‘When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?’ – Agnes Varda

‘Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.’ – John Wooden

‘I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It’s a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.’ – Asin

‘Love is too young to know what conscience is.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I know love is the answer.’ – DJ Khaled

‘For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.’ – Terence

‘Love is so important.’ – Eric Weinstein

‘Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it’s still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘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

‘Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.’ – Emma Goldman

‘How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet – it’s gone.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.’ – Merle Shain

‘Love is the outreach of self toward completion.’ – Ralph W. Sockman

‘Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.’ – Judith Viorst

‘Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy – and that is life.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘Love is so much better when you’re not married.’ – Maria Callas

‘People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.’ – James Branch Cabell

‘Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one’s self.’ – David Frost

‘Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.’ – William Wycherley

‘People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.’ – Robert J. Ringer

‘Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.’ – Louis Aragon

‘To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.’ – Ellen Key

‘On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.’ – Henry Drummond

‘Where love is, there God is also.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.’ – Anita Brookner

‘Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.’ – Josh Billings

‘Love is only one of many passions.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.’ – Julia Cameron

‘I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.’ – Elisabeth Shue

‘All the things I love is what my business is all about.’ – Martha Stewart

‘If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.’ – Rip Torn

‘The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.’ – Paul Eldridge

‘Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.’ – Nicolas Chamfort

‘I’ve never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I’ve always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.’ – Alan Bates

‘Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don’t, don’t. There are no other choices.’ – Tyne Daly

‘Love is stronger than justice.’ – Sting

‘All is amiss. Love is dying, faith’s defying, heart’s denying.’ – Richard Barnfield

‘Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?’ – Gao Xingjian

‘At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.’ – John McLaughlin

‘Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they’re married, then one always suspects they don’t.’ – Jane Rule

‘I’ve never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.’ – Karen Allen

‘Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.’ – Edgar Rice Burroughs

‘Rekindled love is generally short-term.’ – Nicholas Sparks

‘I mean, there’s times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.’ – Graham Nash

‘If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that’s what you expect to gain.’ – Jimmy Reed

‘As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.’ – Edith Stein

‘Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! – John Pearson’ – John Pearson

‘I’ve really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it’s hot.’ – Roy Orbison

‘The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.’ – Joan Chen

‘Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘Freud’s view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.’ – William Godwin

‘Sex is funny and love is serious.’ – Stephan Jenkins

‘To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.’ – Richard Kiel

‘What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.’ – Carl Maria von Weber

‘I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.’ – Fairuza Balk

‘Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.’ – Cynthia Weil

‘Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.’ – Mary Wesley

‘My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I’ll go to college.’ – Dana Hill

‘My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.’ – Keith Miller

‘For the most part, that message hasn’t changed a lot over the years – love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.’ – Casey Kasem

‘Why not hold on to whatever I’ve got because it’s as good as it’s ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don’t believe it’s spiritually based?’ – Kenny Loggins

‘Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.’ – Sean Penn

‘I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can’t really be felt, truly, by one.’ – Sean Penn

‘I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.’ – Bo Derek

‘I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you’re 17.’ – Piper Perabo

‘Love is one of my main inspirations.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that’s always going to change, and love is never going to change.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.’ – George Weinberg

‘Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.’ – Pamela Stephenson

‘What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I’ll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don’t recommend.’ – Dianne Wiest

‘Love is more than one thing.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don’t have with anybody else, but that’s not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.’ – Maximilian Schell

‘My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.’ – Linford Christie

‘The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.’ – Emanuel Swedenborg

‘My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.’ – John Dyer

‘Unrequited love is always a great thing.’ – Neil LaBute

‘Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She’s wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.’ – Steven Cojocaru

‘I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.’ – Judd Nelson

‘I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God’s love is real.’ – Dyan Cannon

‘Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there’s even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It’s not real.’ – Ethan Embry

‘The film Punch – Drunk Love is how you see the world when you’re in love. You don’t see somebody’s psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.’ – Emily Watson

‘I like Anastacia’s version of Love is Alive best.’ – Gary Wright

‘For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.’ – Marie de France

‘I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.’ – Lalla Ward

‘Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘Which is, I’m an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.’ – Garry Shandling

‘Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.’ – Susan Sarandon

‘The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year.’ – Lennart Nilsson

‘Love is full of anxious fears.’ – Ovid

‘Love is a given, hatred is acquired.’ – Douglas Horton

‘Love is so simple.’ – Jacques Prevert

‘My life is brillant, My love is pure.’ – James Blunt

‘The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.’ – George Meredith

‘Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.’ – James Thurber

‘Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘World’s use is cold, world’s love is vain, world’s cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!’ – Robert Orben

‘Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.’ – Marie Osmond

‘Book love… is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.’ – Anthony Trollope

‘We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.’ – David Ansen

‘Love is the reason you were born.’ – Dorothy Fields

‘However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘Love is sweeping the country.’ – Ira Gershwin

‘Love is not a volunteer thing.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘I’ll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.’ – Howard Dietz

‘It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.’ – Kate Millett

‘To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.’ – Roland Barthes

‘Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.’ – Francois Mauriac

‘If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.’ – Germaine Greer

‘In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.’ – Roger Ascham

‘God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Love is a credulous thing.’ – Ovid

‘I feel I’d like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.’ – Susannah York

‘I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don’t want to leave this room!’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn’t believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.’ – Kristen Bell

‘The thing I love is that my home life hasn’t changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘I’ve been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there’s a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.’ – Ali Larter

‘Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we’re not so happy.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That’s like the only crazy request – I don’t like any other water.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it’s multifaceted.’ – Sienna Miller

‘Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.’ – Brittany Snow

‘Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.’ – Gary Chapman

‘Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.’ – Ian Somerhalder

‘When we’re children we’re told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself – and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn’t just tell me I’m great every day, you know?’ – Jewel

‘I’ve never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might ‘take me.’ My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn’t anything about ‘Oh, I’ve always been gay and I’m breaking the chains.” – Carol Leifer

‘When you have children love is always there in the best form.’ – Rachel Roy

‘It’s incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.’ – Scott Weiland

‘The thing, when you’re down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it’s hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I’m his dad, I’m also his friend.’ – Anthony Kiedis

‘I think ‘All Out of Love’ is my favorite song because it’s been the most successful. It’s been in about 30 movies, it’s been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it’s always somewhere.’ – Graham Russell

‘I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘Love is the funeral of hearts.’ – Ville Valo

‘It’s very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren’t great.’ – Nicole Kidman

‘I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can’t really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it’s my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.’ – Joseph Fiennes

‘Love is a gift.’ – Kathy Najimy

‘Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘I think I understand passion. Love is something else.’ – Paul Theroux

‘Falling in love is awesome, but I’m never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you’re happily in love, it’s like, ‘OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.” – Miranda Lambert

‘No, actually ‘The Host’ was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘Love is an indescribable sensation – perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.’ – Rudolf Nureyev

‘Well, for me, what I’ve learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.’ – Jason Mraz

‘The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.’ – Amy Winehouse

‘Love is a beautiful feeling.’ – Kabir Bedi

‘The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.’ – Jason Clarke

‘Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can’t enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.’ – Kyle Chandler

‘I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you’re going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What’s going to be most important to you? And I think that’s really interesting to write about.’ – John Green

‘Love is sacrifice.’ – David Oyelowo

‘Love is boundary-less.’ – Angel Haze

‘Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.’ – Emmanuelle Riva

‘You don’t have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.’ – Joshua Bell

‘Love is just chemistry.’ – Rachel Hunter

‘Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!’ – Claudia Christian

‘One thing I love is to do children’s hospital visits.’ – James Maslow

‘Being in love is not cool!’ – Alice Englert

‘But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, ‘Major Barbara’ is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.’ – Tony Kushner

‘The craziest thing I’ve done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.’ – Shay Mitchell

‘A film that I love is ‘Raising Arizona’ and that’s funny but it’s quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I’d love to do something like that. Who knows?’ – Stephen Moyer

‘Love is such a confusing word. You think I’m joking but I’m not.’ – Michael Showalter

‘Someone asked me a while back, ‘Why do artists always write about love?’ And I was like, ‘Love is the coolest thing that’s ever happened in the world.” – Kris Allen

‘Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it’s a lot busier.’ – Lee DeWyze

‘What I love is the writing, it’s not having written. I like the process of it.’ – Michael Koryta

‘I think teen-age love is a great thing. There’s nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.’ – Tom Jones

‘To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I’ll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I’d still be doing it!’ – Steve Winwood

‘Both of my books, ‘Love Is a Mix Tape’ and ‘Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,’ are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I’m an obsessive music fan, I’m always seeking out new sonic thrills.’ – Rob Sheffield

‘All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.’ – Dax Shepard

‘Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it’s very hard to get over.’ – Leona Lewis

‘For me, love is happiness and inspiration.’ – Leona Lewis

‘My first love is producing.’ – Timbaland

‘Romantic love is painful.’ – will.i.am

‘All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.’ – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

‘And that’s what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that’s why we read magazines like ‘People’ and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.’ – Alex Pettyfer

‘I haven’t traveled in Africa nearly as much as I’d like to. I’ve been there a few times, and I’d like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that’s the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.’ – Chick Corea

‘From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent’s love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you’ve put in.’ – Kevin Whately

‘I believe ‘love’ is very nice to hear, but it’s used so much that it’s come to a point where it’s almost meaningless.’ – Park Chan-wook

‘I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like ‘Lethal Weapon.” – Josh Peck

‘I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.’ – Richard Paul Evans

‘I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!’ – Dave Sitek

”Love’ is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like ‘move.’ The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as ‘love’ and as ‘guv’ – a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.’ – James Fenton

‘Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.’ – Jay McInerney

‘Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.’ – Joy Fielding

‘For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It’s about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.’ – Julia Butterfly Hill

‘For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘The truth about love is that you don’t always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend’s husband and sometimes it’s your father. It’s weird. But that’s a fact of life.’ – Meg Rosoff

”Which is stronger, politics or love?’ is like asking, ‘Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?’ They are two sides of the same thing.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it’s storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what’s right for the story, I enjoy doing it.’ – Neil Strauss

‘As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn’t stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.’ – Shane Claiborne

‘Love is agony, isn’t it? I’ve been involved with someone for some time now, but it’s all so complicated. It’s never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it’s the most wonderful thing ever but… There’s always something that’s not quite right about love, isn’t there?’ – Daphne Guinness

‘In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.’ – Louis Sullivan

‘For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.’ – Mae Whitman

‘Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we’re all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.’ – Pauley Perrette

‘Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page – I can’t control the rest of Twitter – but I try to make my page a safe place for people.’ – Yvette Nicole Brown

‘On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I’ve definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube – before, you couldn’t tell.’ – Imogen Heap

‘When you’re a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That’s where I want to be judged.’ – Roger Avary

‘The whole idea of love is scary – so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There’s lots of research to suggest that, actually, love’s not really that simple.’ – Aziz Ansari

‘Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents’ house as much as I can.’ – Tahj Mowry

‘My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people’s projects.’ – Missy Elliott

‘That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn’t always win.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.’ – Rufus Wainwright

”Hell is for Children’ is amazing to do every night and ‘Promises in the Dark’ and ‘Love Is a Battlefied,’ of course, but my absolute favorite would be ‘Heartbreaker.’ It’s the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It’s so fun to do.’ – Pat Benatar

‘I’ve been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.’ – Josh Tillman

‘The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren’t supposed to see: the chink in the armor.’ – Marian Seldes

‘Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn’t succeed.’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘Love to me, God, this is so difficult… To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, ‘This is it, this is who I’m supposed to be with.” – Kate Winslet

‘When I hear other people’s stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my ‘Encyclopedia of Human Experience.’ The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.’ – Sarah Kay

‘Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance.” – Joss Whedon

‘I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.’ – Yakov Smirnoff

‘Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.’ – Brene Brown

‘A lot of people say, ‘Wow, you’re a single father of twin boys, that’s crazy!’ Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, ‘Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,’ it can’t get better.’ – Ricky Martin

‘Love is such a fleeting emotion. It’s such a small part of the things you do in your life.’ – Nellie McKay

‘Love is messy. It’s not something that’s real clean.’ – Matt Dillon

‘I sometimes think love is God’s way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.’ – Matt Dillon

‘Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.’ – Helen Fisher

‘At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn’t. The opposite of love is indifference.’ – Helen Fisher

‘I’m going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing – you’ve got to have lots of kisses and cuddles – but you also need to mix it with discipline or you’ll be in a heap of trouble.’ – Jill Scott

‘Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.’ – Julian Baggini

‘Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.’ – Greg Cipes

‘There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.’ – Gina McKee

‘Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?’ – Nancy Lublin

‘What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.’ – Megan Follows

‘You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.’ – Niecy Nash

‘The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.’ – Niecy Nash

‘I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it’s the place we struggle the most.’ – Niecy Nash

‘The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It’s like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.’ – Gabby Douglas

‘The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There’s no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘There’s no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.’ – Luke Goss

‘Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.’ – Brendan O’Carroll

‘Love is a big thing – it’s part of who you become, how you grow up. I had a wonderful husband, and I’m very lucky I have a second wonderful husband. You know, some people don’t even score the first time.’ – Teresa Heinz

‘Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.’ – Charlyne Yi

‘I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.’ – Kailash Kher

‘I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.’ – Alan Ritchson

‘Love is a great emotion, but I believe it’s not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘You think you know what love is – until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.’ – Halle Berry

‘Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Love is bigger than government.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.’ – Penn Jillette

‘What I would love is a crossover between ‘Royal Pains’ and ‘Burn Notice,’ that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.’ – Paulo Costanzo

‘Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.’ – Athol Fugard

‘My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.’ – Michael O’Brien

‘Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.’ – Michael O’Brien

‘Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it’s not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!’ – Alain Badiou

‘To really understand what love is, you’ve kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families… When a man and a woman come together and say ‘I do,’ they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul – I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.’ – Salma Hayek

‘I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in ‘Love Is Hell,’ where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like ‘The Nine Types of Boyfriends,’ ‘Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,’ ‘Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,’ and other arbitrarily numbered lists.’ – Matt Groening

‘Music is where my love is. I don’t think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it’s going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had ‘Love Is a Battlefield,’ and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat – especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light’s dappling through the trees.’ – John Lasseter

‘I’d rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I’m born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don’t think I would want to do that.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘Your kids are happy if you’re happy. And if your love is happy, then everything works. I think a lot of people think once the children are there, it’s all about the children. But you can’t forget about your best friend, your lover, your husband.’ – Heidi Klum

‘Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn’t matter.’ – Hill Harper

‘It doesn’t matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.’ – Kym Whitley

‘I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.’ – Laura Mvula

‘All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that’s in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.’ – Bat for Lashes

‘I’m still kinda old-school. We’re twittering, and we’re all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don’t love is twits.’ – Biz Stone

‘I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that’s pretty mass appeal. I’m not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it’s not just American. A great song can touch the world.’ – Diane Warren

‘I consider myself very lucky. I’m known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.’ – Douglas Kirkland

‘I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.’ – Eric Close

‘I don’t think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It’s usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that’s just because it’s easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.’ – Jason Mraz

‘If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I have the soundtrack for ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ which is kind of cool. I guess I don’t really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called ‘Betty Blue.’ it has some really melancholy piano work.’ – James Mercer

‘Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.’ – Randall Kennedy

‘Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.’ – George Cukor

‘Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don’t.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.’ – Sonam Kapoor

‘Finding love is a fixation now, and that’s because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of ‘the happy state.” – Francois Lelord

”Punch-Drunk Love’ is my favorite movie.’ – Domhnall Gleeson

‘Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer’s daily routine, unless you’re Dominick Dunne, isn’t exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.’ – Bryan Burrough

‘What I love – and I’m a journalist – and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.’ – David McCandless

‘Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘I’m human, I feel, I understand. That’s the highest level of love, is understanding – when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I’ll consider your feelings, too.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.’ – Robert Stromberg

‘I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work – when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?’ – Rainbow Rowell

‘Whether it’s a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn’t have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either.’ – Brad Goreski

‘My true love is history, but I didn’t know how I could make a living at it.’ – Robert Zoellick

‘Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.’ – Alexandra Cassavetes

‘Love is a component of many different things – the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It’s not something to count on and act like it’s a stable thing.’ – Alexandra Cassavetes

‘There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.’ – Susan Minot

‘What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.’ – Anna Popplewell

‘Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach… love is close by… and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation… everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!’ – Dave Sitek

‘Love is great, but not as a password.’ – Matt Mullenweg

‘One of the only TV shows that I really love is ‘Twin Peaks.’ Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I’m in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it’s really weird.’ – Jane Levy

‘I think falling in love is always a surprise, right? – Josh Dallas’ – Josh Dallas

”Yes’ is the mother of all positive words, next to ‘love.’ Maybe ‘love’ is the father of all positive words.’ – Jason Mraz

‘To see two couples that are battling to make it work just shows that love is in a marriage, but there are also trials and things that you have to make it through and showing women and men how to keep it spicy.’ – Kyla Pratt

‘Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you’re still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.’ – Lisa Kleypas

‘Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.’ – Dan Feuerriegel

‘Love is important. I didn’t have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I’ve always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I’d need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.’ – Dan Colen

‘Being in love is the best thing in my life.’ – Olivia Newton-John

‘I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either.’ – Bo Derek

‘When you’re younger, you have ideas and visions of what you’re going to be like when you’re older and what love is going to be like and who you’re gonna be married to and all of these different things.’ – Danger Mouse

‘Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.’ – Steve Aoki

‘To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you’re not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you’re working.’ – Diane Ladd

‘Love is hard.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.’ – Elizabeth Holmes

‘Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that’s it. There’s more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.’ – Joanna Lumley

‘I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me – it was like a liberation. I’m talking about a love story. I’m not talking about sex because love is love.’ – Stefano Gabbana

‘I’ve learned that ‘love’ is used a lot in the States for everything: ‘I love that burger,’ ‘I love my shoes,’ ‘I love a friend.’ To me, if it’s overused, it loses meaning.’ – Juan Pablo Galavis

‘I am just so appreciative of God’s love. It’s higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!’ – Fred Hammond

‘My philosophy on love is that if it is The One, whatever the circumstances are, you’ll figure it out. There’s nothing too difficult to overcome.’ – Greg Poehler

‘What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself – it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men – who all feel differently.’ – Carl Maria von Weber

‘Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.’ – Orlando Bloom

‘I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.’ – Spike Jonze

‘The thing that I love is human behavior – why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make – and that has to always be plot driven.’ – Richard LaGravenese

‘The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.’ – James Gray

‘The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we’ve all been there.’ – James Gray

‘Love is possible as life is possible.’ – Robin Wright

‘I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales.’ – Roxane Gay

‘Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.’ – Sarah MacLean

‘The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.’ – Sarah MacLean

‘There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises – the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom – but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.’ – Sarah MacLean

‘In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.’ – Sarah MacLean

‘This is why Alzheimer’s is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they’ve gone – your husband is gone – and they become your child, and you have to look after them as you would a child.’ – Judy Parfitt

‘What I love is getting polarized opinions.’ – Brendon Urie

‘War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.’ – Richard Flanagan

‘People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That’s happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.’ – Kate Winslet

‘I’ve just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we – then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.’ – Betty Wright

‘I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said – that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.’ – Erwin McManus

‘What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air – you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming – a physical pain.’ – Jojo Moyes

‘I’m not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn’t.’ – Alana Stewart

‘I learned that saying you love your friends isn’t enough: that love is a verb – it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.’ – Jane Green

‘Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.’ – Victor Hugo

‘When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected – and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I think certainly that looking for love is a big part of the show, but I think that if – there’s one thing that is different about ‘Sex and the City’ and the message that I think has resonated with viewers, especially women. It’s that you don’t need to get married. You don’t really need that love to be fulfilled.’ – Darren Star

‘Just as little as terror – not even the terror of war – can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace – not only love for one’s fellowmen, but first of all, love of one’s country.’ – Ellen Key

‘The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.’ – Ellen Key

‘God’s love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.’ – Charlotte Lamb

‘I don’t believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don’t have to be with that person in order to love him.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it’s plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.’ – Samantha Harvey

‘Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.’ – Emily Berrington

‘You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son’s love… a child’s love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what.’ – Ciara

‘We’re told all the time to give up everything for love. That’s the Western notion of what love is – love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.’ – Rachel Bloom

‘I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations – ‘Love is a flower,’ ‘The sky is so dark’ – but comedy lives in specifics.’ – Rachel Bloom

‘The American fantasy of love is the ‘meet-cute,’ ‘Love at first sight,’ and ‘You had me at hello!’ The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn’t care about demographics and social compatibility.’ – Susan Straight

‘Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I’m a hopeless romantic.’ – Candice Glover

‘Love is dangerous; it’s not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.’ – Patrick deWitt

‘Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.’ – Shakira

‘I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.’ – Shakira

‘Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.’ – Eileen Myles

‘New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere.’ – Adrian Tomine

‘Breaking up is hard to do… so it’s essential to keep getting wiser – and wiser – about what healthy love is all about.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It’s something that marks you.’ – Elodie Yung

‘I’m an actor. I’m a singer. And I dance. To be able to do all these things is amazing. And to have similar-minded people all around you, doing what you love, is even more amazing.’ – Elijah Kelley

‘Love is itself an expression of strength.’ – Ann Maxwell

‘Love is junk.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler

‘Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don’t feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: ‘What an easy way to earn a living.” – Laura Trott

‘The right to love is granted to anyone.’ – Tzipi Livni

‘Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.’ – Simon Helberg

‘The beautiful thing about writing with the person that you love is that when they come up with an idea that is great, it’s this dual happiness because that’s the partner and that’s such a good idea, and I’m proud of you, and then also I’m really excited for the project.’ – Melissa Rauch

‘Tough love is the hardest to give.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.’ – Mother Angelica

‘Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.’ – Mother Angelica

‘When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘It’s insane to have won all those things – not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you’ve won.’ – Charlotte Dujardin

‘The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who’s gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I think love is blind. You don’t see it; you don’t hear what people are saying or what you’re saying. You don’t see what you’re doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That’s it.’ – Selena Gomez

‘The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.’ – Alexandra Bracken

‘It’s a bummer interracial love is still such a big deal. To me, it’s quite normal. I grew up seeing couples that were interracial. Who cares if it’s a black guy and white girl, or an Asian guy and white girl, etc.? Odds are, every combo exists out there somewhere so why not put it on the screen? Shouldn’t art imitate life?’ – Vincent Rodriguez III

‘I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there’s art in everything as long as it’s made with soul.’ – Sara Sampaio

‘For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.’ – DJ Khaled

‘It’s been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it’s not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it’s pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.’ – Alexandra Kleeman

‘To me, I’m sort of like Dorothy in ‘The Wiz.’ It kind of parallels my life. It’s a story that reminds me… that home is where the love is. So if I go to Tampa or St. Pete, and I feel the love there, that’s my home. That’s where the love is.’ – Kenny Leon

‘The cinema I particularly love is the cinema of the golden age of the studios in the 1930s. One of the really nice things about it was the way teams of actors and directors and crew people worked together again and again.’ – Whit Stillman

‘Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.’ – Aja Naomi King

‘Love is a state of being.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Yelling between people in love is normal.’ – Grace Jones

‘The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.’ – Alain de Botton

‘Love is something that we need to learn.’ – Alain de Botton

‘What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.’ – Alain de Botton

‘I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.’ – Nick Jonas

‘I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.’ – Rihanna

‘I’ve always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.’ – Maren Morris

‘I don’t think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, and what I love is working.’ – Ruth Negga

‘Any day that is designated to shower the person you love with love is my favorite holiday.’ – Kevin Nealon

‘The duet with Frank Sinatra, ‘What Now My Love,’ is one of my favorites.’ – Aretha Franklin

‘Love is a brainworm.’ – Howard Jacobson

‘When we got married – almost 10 years ago now – we made a commitment to really be together, which means we hardly ever spend a night apart. And being madly in love is important, but I think it’s equally important to be in deep like! I like this guy… we talk about everything, and we laugh a lot. Life is good!’ – Trisha Yearwood

‘My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.’ – Maren Morris

‘My biggest lesson I’ve learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it’s amazing. It’s fine. It hurts. It’s probably one of the best experiences in life.’ – Christina Milian

‘Love is what really fuels you, and that goes for relationships with a spouse or with family. Love is a beautiful thing.’ – Christina Milian

‘Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can’t stop thinking about them. That’s violent. Hopefully, it’s for the better, but it’s a violent thing.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that’s what I write about.’ – Yuna

‘I just wanted to finally release something that sounded really fun, and ‘Must Be Love’ is that song! I’m telling you, I went to the Philippines and sang that live for everyone, and everyone was singing along, and I thought, ‘Wow!’ Everyone was singing this song back to me because everyone loves love.’ – Christina Grimmie

‘Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.’ – Lady Gaga