"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

"As your lover describes you, so you are."
— Jeanette Winterson

"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa

"Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.
"
— Kahlil Gibran

"The only victory over love is flight."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

""There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

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— Bryant H. McGill

"What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss."
— Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)

"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version)

"My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
— Paulo Coelho

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things,and only the wise can see them."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive."
— Paulo Coelho (The Zahir)

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"Love simply is."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)