You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. 
~ Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- )American journalist

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~ Anne Dillard

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. 
~ Albert Ellis (1913- )American psychologist, author

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. 
~ Louise Hay (1935-1989) American author, publisher

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. 
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- )American journalist

All love that has not friendship for its base,is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American New Thought poet

Love is a game that two can play and both win. 
~ Eva Gabor (1919-1995) Hungarian American actress

The hardest-learned lesson:  that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- ) American journalist

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. 
It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~ W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) English dramatist & novelist

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. 
~ Victor Hugo

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- ) American journalist

Love works in miracles every day:
such as weakening the strong and stretching the weak;
making fools of the wise and wise men of fools; f
avoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word,
turning everything topsy-turvy.
~ Marguerite De Valois (1553-1615) Wife of Henry Navarre

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. 
~ Charles du Bos

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

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes the partner in crime.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- )American journalist

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Nobel novelist.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. 
~Zora Neale Hurston

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- )American journalist

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. 
~ Werner Erhard (1935-) American founder of EST

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love;
it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. 
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. 
And no one can understand infatuation,
no matter how many times he has experienced it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- )American journalist

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915- )American journalist

We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) British author

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Teresa

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. 
~ Kay Knudsen

Never apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so you apologize for truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British statesman, prime minister & writer