Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey on love
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk. Paulo Coelho on love
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin on love
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. Margaret Thatcher on love
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. Alphonsus Liguori on love
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Rabindranath Tagore on love
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes on love
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud on love
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. Emma Goldman on love
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. Albert Ellis on love
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Peter Tosh on love
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. Voltaire on love
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French on love
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats on love
True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach on love
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse. Gary Busey on love
I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts. Venus Williams on love
Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull on love
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away! Oscar Hammerstein II on love