“Love cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Love doesn’t require that you choose what inhumanity you care about. Love is beyond religion, race & region. Love doesn’t label you because you want peace & safety for Palestinian children & Israeli children. Love that does not weep regarding slaughtered Palestinians is not Love.”— Bernice King, twitter.com
“I will not speak of the suddenness of your love for my child, because I know, from my own past experience, that love is a rapid impulse — a flame ignited in a moment.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Love always was and always will be incessant care, being there without being asked to, making fun of yet smiling at the other's quirks, and feeling an ineffable comfort and sense of security that almost feels like home.”— N.B., instagram.com
“To love someone is to agree to live inside an unsolvable mystery. You can never get to the bottom of another's truth or cause.”— Brit Marling, twitter.com
“love is not dead. love is not retired. love is too big for a box. love is as expansive as god in a room of clouds. love is art. love is religious.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“love is all the lights on, her naked the sun. love is your mother’s hands. father’s prayers. grandma's collards. 3rd grade classroom notes folded in the palm crevice. the last "yes" in the ocean of "no." a church door. the bronx, 6am.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”— Gerald Jampolsky, amazon.com
“...love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb. So love...Serve...Sacrifice. Listen...Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm...”— Stephen R Covey, amazon.com
“I used to think that loving somebody meant sacrificing anything for them. I thought it meant writing them a blank cheque. I thought it meant that you would die without each other. But it turns out that death and a broken heart are not the same. These days, I think that love is not so dramatic as all…”— Leila Sales, 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
“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear forever.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“I desire a love so beautiful that it surpasses the word itself. A love felt so deeply it makes a fool out of the definition. A love so grand that a new word must be invented just to describe our intricate connection.”— Lynette Simeone, wnq-writers.com
“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com
“I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another.”— John Green, amazon.com