"If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person." Matthew Ford

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death". Thomas Mann

"What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose." Henry Ward Beecher

"It is impossible to love and to be wise." Francis Bacon

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil". Friedrich Nietzsche

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears". Leo Tolstoy

"Love is just an abbreviation for everything we have ever wanted to say about that one person who truly means something to us, all wrapped up in a tiny four-letter box". /Author unknown/

"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other." Felix Adler

"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." Percy Bysshe Shelly

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." Mignon McLaughlin

"So put your hand in the hand of mine, and we'll spread this love like dandelions." TobyMac

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness". Bertrand Russell

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity." Jean Baudrillard

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more".
Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." Samuel Johnson

"A man has only one escape from his old self to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes". Clare Boothe Luce