“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Now look at whoever is next to you. Look at them with eyes of joy and remember what St. Augustine said: 'If you want to see God, you have the means to do it.' God is love.”— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com
“Love is diving headfirst into someone else’s confusion and finding that it all makes sense.”— Atticus, amazon.com
“I think love is a hard word to define...You can love a lot of things about a person and still not love the whole person.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Forelsket (Norwegian): The indescribable euphoria you experience as you begin to fall in love.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Instead aspire to be each other's darkness as much as the light. Be the thing that helps the other shine.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“However much we describe and explain love, when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.”— Rumi, poemhunter.com
“Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.”— Jared Leto, pinterest.com
“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“When two people belong together, there is simply--at long last--a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but we are really after is familiarity.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“There is, in the early period of love where...we can be childish, imaginative, wild, hopeful, cynical, fragile, and multiple; all of this our lover can understand and accept us for.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing, and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with us and forgi…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is also, and equally, about weakness, about being touched by another's fragilities and sorrows, especially when--as happens in the early days--we ourselves are in no danger of being held responsible for them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We allow our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com