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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~ Aristotle ~

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
~ James A. Baldwin ~

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney ~

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman ~

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~ Emily Bronte ~

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
~ Rupert Brooke ~

The best proof of love is trust.
~ Joyce Brothers ~

Who so loves believes the impossible.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
~ Willa Cather ~

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 ~

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 ~

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
~ William Congreve ~

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove,
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
~ John Donne ~

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
~ John Donne ~

Love is love's reward.
~ John Dryden ~

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
~ Albert Ellis ~

All mankind love a lover.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~ Euripides ~

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
~ Erich Fromm ~

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~ Robert Frost ~

Love is metaphysical gravity.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller ~

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~ Eva Gabor ~

Where there is love there is life.
~ Mohandas Gandhi ~

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~ David Grayson ~

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
~ Daniel S. Greenberg ~

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~ Ben Hecht ~

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo ~

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~ Zora Neale Hurston ~

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~ Javan ~

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.~

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
~ John Keats ~

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth,
the delight, the ecstasy of it,
you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti ~

Do all things with love.
~ Og Mandino ~

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
~ H. L. Mencken ~

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~ Plato ~

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~ George Bernard Shaw~

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
~ James Thurber ~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu ~

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov ~

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle,
a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~ Judith Viorst ~

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to
and something warm to come to.
~ Tammy Wynette ~