-Anonymous

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”

-Anatole France

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”

-Robert Byrne

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

-Eric Fromm

-Saint-Exupery

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

-Ingrid Bergman

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

-Alexander Smith

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

-Thoreau

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

-Mignon McLaughlin

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

-Jeanne Moreau

-Albert Einstein

“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation – We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.”

-Leo F. Buscaglia

“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.”

-Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

What is sacred?

Of what is spirit made of?

What is worth living for?

What is worth dying for?

The answer to each is the same.  Only Love.

-Don Juan DeMarco (Movie)

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

-Erica Jong

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

-Saint Francis De Sales

-Eric Fromm

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep- burning and unquenchable.”

-Bruce Lee

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.”

-Jonathan Carroll, ‘Outside the Dog Museum’

~Albert Ellis

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

~Robert Brault

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.

~Judith Viorst

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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

-Ingrid Bergman

And think not you can

Direct the course of love,

For love,

If it finds you worthy,

Directs your course.

- Kahlil Gibran

“Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.”

-Charles Stanley

-Leo Buscaglia

“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.”

-Henry Ward Beecher

“Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships… the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Stephen Levine

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”

-Patricia Fry

“Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships… the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt