On love: “I have no respect for anyone who says they’ve given up, or that they’re not looking or that they’re tired. That is to abrogate one’s responsibility as a human being.” Harlan Ellison

“A lover fears all that he believes.” Ovidio

“A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it’s you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart”. Unknown

“And the trouble is if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” Erica Jong

“Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.” June Masters Bacher

“In dreams and in love there are no impossiblities.” Janos Arany

“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” Daisaku Ideda

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” Hubert H. Humphrey

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” Michael Leunig

“Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” Dr. Karl Menninger

“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.” John Harrigan

“Courage is like love’ it must have hope for nourishment.” Napoleon

“True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially–even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” Willian R. Mattox, Jr.

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” Vincent Van Gogh

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.” Henry Drummond

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau

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

“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” Unknown

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” Stendhal

“love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurs!” Unknown

“True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.” Alicia Barnhart

“Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.” Unknown

“Within you I love myself. Without you I find myself wanting to be lost again.” Unknown

“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.” Karen Casey

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” Anonymous

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” G.K. Chesterton

“And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don’t let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.” Philip Robison

“Love without reason lasts the longest.” Unknown

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare