To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and probably be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safely in the casket of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become impenetrable, irredeemable… The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love, is hell.

 —C.S. Lewis

A bell is not a bell until you ring it; / A song is not a song until you sing it. / Love in your heart is not put there to stay; / Love is not love until you give it away.

 —Oscar Hammerstein II

They do not love that do not show their love.

 —William Shakespeare

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.

— Ann Landers

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.                                                                              —Charlie Brown

Love can be magic, but magic can sometimes… just be an illusion. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

 — Kahlil Gibran

It is a curious thought, but it is only where you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

—Agatha Christie

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

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

—Tom Robbins

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

 —Iris Murdoch

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

— bell hooks

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

 —Robert Frost

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

 — Matt Groening