“Love that friend, that person, that thing, whatever you like, you'll be on the right path to knowing more thoroughly, afterwards; that's what I say to myself. But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, b…”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reason for loving.”— Fulton J. Sheen, amazon.com
“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”— Jewel Kilcher, amazon.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how. We want to stand upright, we want to walk, but someone needs to hold our hand and balance us a bit, and guide us a bit, and scoop us up when we fall. Listen, we fall. Love is there but we have…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Instead aspire to be each other's darkness as much as the light. Be the thing that helps the other shine.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.”— Keith Miller, facebook.com
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Theodore: I’ve never loved anyone the way I loved you. Samantha: Me too. Now we know how.”— Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, amazon.com
“Our capacity to love another is directly proportional to our capacity to love ourselves.”— Meggan Watterson, Lodro Rinzler, amazon.com
“i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Love is a thousand things, but at the center is a choice. It is a choice to love people. Left to myself, i get quiet and bitter and critical. i get angry. I feel sorry for myself. It is a choice to love people. It is a choice to be kind. It is a choice to be patient, to be honest, to live with grace…”— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com
“Know that you do not belong to them, nor they to you. Your residency in their heart is not kept by right, not by some great puppetry of the universe, but by your kindness.”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.com