Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” James Baldwin
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” Lucille Ball
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” Rainer Maria Rilke
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Morrie Schwartz
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron
If I know what love is, it is because of you. Herman Hesse
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. Roy Croft
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Seneca
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. Eleanor Roosevelt