One word
frees us of all the weight and pain
of life: That word is love." -
Sophocles
"Attention
is the most basic form of love;
through it we bless and are
blessed." - John Tarrant
"We love
because it's the only true
adventure." - Nikki Giovanni
"Love is
like quicksilver in the hand. Leave
the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away." -
Dorothy Parker
"Love is
friendship set on fire." - unknown
"Love is an
ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
- Goethe
"To be in
love is merely to be in a state of
perceptual anesthesia." - H.L.
Mencken
"Love is
everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical
about it...It really is worth
fighting for, risking everything
for. And the trouble is, if you
don't risk everything, you risk even
more." - Erica Jong
"Sometimes
love is stronger than a man's
convictions." - Isaac Bashevis
Singer
"Love is
the master key that opens the gates
of happiness." - Oliver Wendell
Holmes
"Love
stretches your heart and makes you
big inside." - Margaret Walker
"Love has
no awareness of merit or demerit; it
has no scale... Love loves; this is
its nature." - Howard Thurman
"Love is
like war: Easy to begin but hard to
end." - Anonymous
"Love
consists in this, that two solitudes
protect and touch and greet each
other." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Where love
is, no room is too small." - Talmud
"Loves
makes your soul crawl out from its
hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston
"Love is
more than three words mumbled before
bedtime. Love is sustained by
action, a pattern of devotion in the
things we do for each other every
day." - Nicholas Sparks