It isn''t possible to love and part...You can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. -E M Forester
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. -John Ciardi
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing--sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away. -Henri Nouwen
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. - V.F. Calverton
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -Henry Drummond
"A bell''s not a bell ''til you ring it A song''s not a song ''til you sing it Love in your heart wasn''t put there to stay Love isn''t love ''til you give it away!" -Oscar Hammerstein
Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things, not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one and only one, compared to them, no one matters. -A. Braxton