Where there is love there is life.                       —Mahatma Gandhi

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.       —Kahlil Gibran

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

—Ralph Connor

The best proof of love is trust.                           —Dr Joyce Brothers

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.   —Maya Angelou

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

—William Shakespeare

Who, being loved, is poor?                                             —Oscar Wilde

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

  —Ben Hecht

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

  —James Thurber

Romance, who loves to nod and sing, / With drowsy head and folded wing.          —Edgar Allan Poe

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

—Henry Miller

If I know what love is, it is because of you.          —Herman Hesse

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.                                                                                                —Carl Jung

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

—Thomas Merton