The Facts...of LOVE

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Allan K. Chalmers

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
-Amy Bloom

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
-Ann Landers

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
-Barbara de Angelis

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
-Blaise Pascal

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

Tell me who admires and loves you,
And I will tell you who you are.
-Charles Audustin Sainte-Beuve

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-Elbert Hubbard

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
-Elie Wiesel

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Franklin P. Jones

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-George MacDonald

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.
-Henri Nouwen

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
-Ingrid Bergman


Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
-Mark Twain


Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-Robert Heinlein

Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...
-Rose Walker

I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
-Roy Croft

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
-Saint Francis de Sales

Where there is love, there is pain.
-Spanish proverb

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
-St. Augustine

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
-Ursula K. Leguin

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-Washington Irving

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
-Zora Neale Hurston