"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always
yours. If they don't, they never were."

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what
you are expected to give -- which is everything."

"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."

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we
cannot live within."

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and
preserves. Its eternal goal is life."

"The best proof of love is trust."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our
embarrassment when alone together."

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you
continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the
child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the
philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the
fortitude of the certain."

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love
can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel
that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You
hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the
one you chose."

"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."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great."

"Love builds bridges where there are none."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its
only end."

"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."

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."

"All mankind love a lover."

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a
fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when
they do."

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain
two."

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says
'I need you because I love you.'"

"Where there is love there is life."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was
not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

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

"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved --
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves।"