To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
—Bertrand Russell
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
—Thornton Wilder
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
—Leo Buscaglia
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.… Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
With our love, we could save the world.
—George Harrison
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
—Charles Kuralt
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
—Warsan Shire
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
—Josh Lanyon in The Dark Tide
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
—Luc de Clapiers
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
—Henry Drummond
Practice love first on animals; they are more sensitive.
—George Gurdjieff
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
—Marc Chagall
When I’m with him, I can feel myself getting better. It’s like he’s picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don’t even know he’s doing it. We never talk about it. We don’t go to therapy. He just loves me and that’s enough.
—Ilona Andrews in Magic Bleeds