Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595

The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.
~Albert Ellis

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
~Michael Leunig

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
~Henry David Thoreau

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, “Love Story,” original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
~Frank A. Clark

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden –
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain –
and most importantly, seeds.
~Grey Livingston

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~Robert Heinlein

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love.
~Edgar Allan Poe

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh