Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

• Robert Browning

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

• Albert Ellis

The best proof of love is trust.

• Joyce Brothers

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

• Audrey Hepburn

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

• Edwin Louis Cole

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

• Honore de Balzac

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

• Victor Hugo

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

• Mother Teresa

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

• Jiddu Krishnamurti

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

• Ferdinand Foch

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

• Anais Nin

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

• Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

• Alphonse de Lamartine

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

• Thomas Fuller

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.