The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~ Mother Teresa
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~ Kahlil Gibran
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, Redbook, 1975
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart." ~ Josiah G.
Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~ Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. Mark Overby
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Author Unknown
Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Heinlein