Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love. -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. -Sir James M. Barrie, on love

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. -Mother Teresa

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. -John Donne

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open. -Rabindranath Tagore, Thakur

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. -Dr. Karl Bowman

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -Lord Dewar

Love is being stupid together. -Paul Valery

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self-in the mirror of some woman's eyes. -Clare Boothe Luce

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. -Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Love is the cheapest of religions. -Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity. -George Sand

Love: Two minds without a single thought. -Philip Barry

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. -Bertrand Russell

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. -Percy Bysshe Shelley