This document contains a collection of quotes about love. Some key themes that emerge are: love requires letting others be themselves freely; love grows deeper over time like coals rather than flickering flames; true love is giving to others from a place of caring rather than needing; and love is essential to finding meaning, strength, and happiness in life. Love is portrayed as both profoundly meaningful but also very challenging to understand and maintain.

1. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be
yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment
is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Love is like a friendship caught on 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
becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I
love you.'
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our
lives.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more
love.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you
courage.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live
without you.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he
finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly
drowsy.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

2. Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't
you already there?
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with
another.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who
grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get
anything done in this world.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

3. Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes
candles and fans fires.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to
be loved; we love to love.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

4. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
The best proof of love is trust.