I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
– Mother Teresa
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. – Barbara de Angelis
I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it. – Audrey Hepburn
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken
Intense love does not measure, it just gives. – Mother Teresa
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. – François de La Rochefoucauld
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – William Shakespeare
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. – Lao Tzu
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. – Mother Teresa
Love is trembling happiness. – Khalil Gibran
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Love is my religion—I could die for it. – John Keats
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. – Saint Teresa of Avila
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. – Henri Matisse
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. – Natalie Clifford Barney
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. – Thornton Wilder
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. – Lynda Barry
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. – Sai Baba
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love conquers all. – Virgil
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