Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- Ranier Maria Rilke

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James Baldwin

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Kahlil Gibran

Love hath made thee a tame snake.
- William Shakespeare

Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Oscar Hammerstein

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire