Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. -Mark Overby

To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart. -Unknown

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened, and every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens.It may only last a moment, an hour, or an afternoon, but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives. -From the film The Mirror Has Two Faces

Love is a moment that lasts forever... -Julie Wittey

Love is when you look into someone's eyes and see their heart. -Jill Petty

There is a comfort in the strength of love
'Twill make a thing endurable
Which else would overset the brain
Or break the human heart. -William Wordsworth

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. -Jeanette Winterson

For love… has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them. -Virginia Woolf

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. -Louis Aragon

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. -Jean Anouilh

A chemist who can extract from his heart's element, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. -Kahlil Gibran

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. -Benjamin Disraeli, Sibyl