Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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