Great love and great achievement require great risk.
~ The Dali Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet.

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 (1875-1961)

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
~ Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) American psychologist, author and lecturer on love & relationships

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
~ Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist

When love is not madness, it is not love. 
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) Spanish dramatist, philosopher

In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
~ Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer & moralist

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
~ Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Independence leader, philosopher

Love cures people -- Both the ones who give it And the ones who receive it. 
~ Dr. Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist

There is nothing ridiculous in love.
~ Olive Emilie Scheider (1855-1920) pseudonym: Ralph Iron, British author & feminist

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish author and philosopher

Money is good, love is wealth. ~ Doug Horton

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
~ Sophocles (496-406 BCE) Greek philosopher, playwright

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~ Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German psychoanalyst & writer

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you.
~ Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher

The loving are the daring.
~ Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) American poet, travel writer

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

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
~ Theodore M. Burton (1907-1989) American religious leader

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~ Jeanne Moreau (1928-) French movie actress

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 (1924-1998) American psychologist, author and lecturer

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
~ Ovid (43 BC-c. 18 AD) Roman poet

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and
most powerful being in the world...
~ Emmet Fox

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1998)

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German philosopher, scientist & writer

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
~ Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

Love not what you are, but what you may become.
~ Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish writer & dramatist, author of Don Quixote

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany (1817-1882) Hungarian poet

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
~ Theophile Gautier

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination
nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) British poet

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
~ Douglas Yates from How the Mind Works (Steven Pinker)

Work and love—these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
~ Theodor Reik (1888-1969) Austrian-American psychoanalyst

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu (600 BCE) Chinese Taoist philosopher

There isn't time - so brief is life - for bickering,
apologies, heart burnings, callings to account.
There is only time for loving,
and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
~ Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author