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 is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Love is a serious mental disease.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

This love is silent.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

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.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

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

Love is being stupid together.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.