"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." - George MacDonald
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. - Mason Cooley
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael
When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. - Kahlil Gibran
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. - Thomas à Kempis
Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. - Pope John Paul II
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. - Vincent Van Gogh
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. - Khalil Gibran
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. - George Eliot
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. - John Donne
