"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." ~ Leo Tolstoy
Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies. ~ Richard Bach
Men do not settle down. Men surrender. ~ Chris Rock
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ~ Diane Arbus
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love are left, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern. ~ Dawn Powell, Locusts Have No King, 1996
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime, therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. ~ Dorothy Day
If we do not love, we are nothing. And, if we are not loved ourselves, we are nobody. ~ Bernard S. Raskas, Quotable American Rabbis, 1967
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? ~ Confucius
Love is a chain of love as Nature is a chain of life. ~ Truman Capote
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. ~ Anita Shreve, Weight of Water, 1998