“...and in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart, and read my former pleasures in the shooting lights of thy wild eyes.” 

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...” 

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.” 

“to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature” 

You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love.

“It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.” 

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. during the Following the Equator tour. True love is the only heart disease that is best left to "run on"--the only affection of the heart for which there is no help, and none desired. The course of free love never runs smooth.

Love is given, not received. 

It’s not something you can buy. No amount of money or power will bring you true, unconditional love.

When you have children, you learn to love something more than you love yourself, and you can talk about that all day long, but you have never had that feeling until you’ve had a child.

Just be you and wait for the people who want that.

Love people more. […] It turns out you can give love. It’s free to give. […] On a long enough time scale, the universe sends it back your way.

True, unconditional love, is the province of parents and saints.