Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. – Dr. Joyce Brothers
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. -Victor Hugo
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. – Margaret Anderson
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. – Erica Jong
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. – Mignon McLaughlin
I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart. – Alice Walker
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.– Julia Roberts
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. – Robert Sexton
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. – Elbert Hubbard
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. – Sir Hugh Walpole
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything. – Katharine Hepburn
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. – Erich Fromm
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. – Emanuel Swedenborg
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. – Euripides
The love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. – Vincent Van Gogh
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. – Germaine De Stael
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. – Barbara Johnson
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. – St. Augustine
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We are all born for love… it is the principle existence and it’s only end. – Benjamin Disraeli
See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. – Gretchen Kemp
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. – Tom Robbins
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated. – Leo Buscaglia
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara De Angelis
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Jeanne Moreau
Blessed be!
Lisa