Love
consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and
greet each other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The
greatest pleasure in life is love.
- Sir William Temple
Mutual
love, the crown of all our bliss.
- John Milton
No
cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as
love can do with a single thread.
- Robert Burton
It
is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections
are drawn together.
- Lawrence Sterne
Love
is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh
Love
cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes
out of Heaven, unmasked and unsought.
- Pearl Buck
They
gave each other a smile with a future in it.
- Ring Lardner
Love
does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking
together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perhaps
love is the process of my gently leading you back to yourself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All
thy vexations,
Were
but my trials of thy love, and thou
Hast strangely stood the test.
- William Shakespeare
The
heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars
therein, if only the star of love has arisen.
- Jean Paul Richter
We
never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never
realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in the full
glow of love for others.
-
Walter Rauschenbusch
Love
doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-
Franklin P. Jones
To
love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
- Francois Mauriac