Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
—Joseph Conrad
Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.
—Jay Crownover in Jet
Love is a great beautifier.
—Louisa May Alcott
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
—Mother Teresa
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
—Paulo Coelho
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
—Stephen Covey
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
—Robert A. Heinlein
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
—Rupert Brooke
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.
—Gabrielle Zevin in In the Age of Love and Chocolate
I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
—Veronica Roth in Allegiant
Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle—it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act of self-preservation.
—Ally Condie in First Day
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
—Charles M. Schulz
Love is energy of life.
—Robert Browning