You can give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving.


Amy Carmichael

Love makes the wildest spirit tame,
and the tamest spirit wild.


Alexis Delp

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

Love talked about is easily turned aside,
but love demonstrated is irresistible.


Stan Mooneyham

In love, there is always one who kisses
and one who offers the cheek.


French Proverb

Love is friendship set to music.


Pollock

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Where there is great love there are always miracles.


Willa Cather

Couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

Chinese Proverb

Love will find a way through paths
where wolves fear to prey.


Lord Byron

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Elizabeth Cameron

To love without expected return on my investment frees me to love with purity of heart, mind and soul.. I am not distracted by selfish motive or disappointed by insensitivity.. I am free to love.. just love.

L. Hodge

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.


H. L. Mencken

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore de Balzac

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Duc de la Rochefoucauld

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

To love is to admire with the heart:
to admire is to love with the mind.


Theophile Gautier

Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change,
but not the essence.


Vincent Van Gogh