“So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live is no life.”
- William Shakespeare
“Love is a lot like fire: in the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love become as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
- Bruce Lee
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
- Erich Fromm
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
- Honore De Balzac
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
- Mother Teresa
“Don’t think that for thru love you must do extraordinary things. All you need is to love and never got tired of it.”
- Mother Teresa
“Love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.”
- Aphra Behn
“Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.”
- Jennette Lee
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”
- Erich Fromm
