Love is the greatest refreshment in life. 

—Pablo Picasso

Love is the poetry of the senses. 

—Honoré de Balzac

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 

—Robert Frost

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. 

—Rose Franken

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. 

—Natalie Clifford Barney

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. 

—Judith Viorst

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. 

—Ben Hecht

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. 

—Latin Proverb

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. 

—William Shakespeare

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. 

—Aerosmith

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

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. 

—Wayne Dyer

The supreme happiness in life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

—Victor Hugo

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

 —Ralph Connor

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

—Alexander Smith

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

—Henry David Thoreau

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.

—William M. Thackeray

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

—Jules Renard

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

—Plato

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

—Robert Browning