"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -- Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." -- Orson Scott Card (b. 1951), American writer
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." -- Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947), American author
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British writer
?I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), French author
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned." -- William Congreve (1670-1729), English playwright
"I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you." -- Roy Croft
"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense." -- E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings (1894-1962), American writer
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." -- Father Jerome Cummings
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do." -- Nan Fairbrother (1913-71), English writer
"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love." -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian physician
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -- Erich Fromm (1900-80), German-born American psychoanalyst
"Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter." -- Lavina Christensen Fugal
"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 (L.) Fulghum (b. 1937), American writer
"Where there is love there is life." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948),
"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life." -- Stephen (F.) Gaskin (b. 1935), American writer
"It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not." -- Andr� Gide (1869-1951), French writer
"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer
"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer
"We are a culmination of all our experiences. Change the experience and you change the person you are." -- Nicole Morris (b. 1979)
"Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.
Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow." -- Adam R. Gwizdala
"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?" -- Oscar Hammerstein, II
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong." -- Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917), American journalist