Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. ~ Arthur Pinero

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
~ Willa Cather (1873-1947) American journalist & novelist, 1923 Pulitzer Prize

Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
~ Charles William Gordon (1860-1937) Canadian clergyman & novelist

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~ Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693) French adventurer & military author

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
~ Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author & philospher

To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing.
~ Maximillian Arturo

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Revolutionary philosopher & publisher 

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
~ Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) American author & essayist

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
~ Cullen Hightower

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
~ Margaret C. Anderson (1886-1973) American author, editor & publisher

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
~ Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American Pulitzer prize winning journalist & editor

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 (1918-1990) American actress & singer

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another.
~ Katharine Hepburn (1909-2004) US Oscar-winning film, stage actress.

The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American preacher, speaker & writer

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox — affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
~ Peter Ustinov (1921-) English writer, director & actor

Sincere love is something that sacrifices—not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.
~ Richard L. Evans (1906-1971) American religious leader

Someone has written, "Love is a verb." It requires doing — not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
~ David B. Haight (1906-) American religious leader

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
~ Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) American psychiatrist

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 Shan

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
~ Albert Camus (1913-1960) French Nobel prize winning philosopher & writer

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857) Russian/French writer

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.  
~ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
~ Billy Graham (1918-) American evangelist

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American poet, philosopher

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~ Nora Roberts

Nothing... is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. . . . The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of — of things longer.
~ Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) English humorist & playwright

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

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

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, novelist, dramatist

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
~ Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) American psychologist, author and lecturer