love

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. George Eliot

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin

Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. H. L. Mencken

Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. Nan Fairbrother

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins