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"Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 — 1955 French visionary and philosopher)

"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
--Erich Fromm

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it does not brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."
-- Ann Landers

"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important."
-- Lisa Hoffman

"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

"A bell's not a bell till you ring it.
 A song's not a song till you sing it.
 Love in your heart is not put there to stay.
 Love isn't love till you give it away."
-- Oscar Hammerstein

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
-- Vincent van Gogh

"Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked."
-- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word - love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
-- Lydia Maria Child

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."
-- Brendan Francis

"The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love."
-- Alfred Armand Montapert

"Not to love is not to live, or it is to live a living death. The life that goes out in love to all is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power."
-- Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958)

"Someone has written, 'Love is a verb.' It requires doing — not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed."
-- David B. Haight

"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them."
-- Mother Teresa

"To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it."
-- Samuel Butler

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Unqualified love means there are no prerequisites, no contingencies, no requirements for your love. It is a gift given with no strings attached."
-- Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D.

"We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in the full glow of others."
-- Walter Rauschenbusch

"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
-- Mother Theresa

"They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"There isn't much room for loneliness when our vessel is filled with love."
-- Joyce C. Lock

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-- Victor Hugo

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-- Henry Drummond

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
-- St. Teresa of Avila

"When one...consciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love." --Spencer W. Kimball

The first duty of love is to listen." -- Paul Tillich (1886-1965)

"I choose to give you love rather than the power to ruin my day."
-- Rev. Anna Joy Grace

"I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day."
-- Og Mandino, author

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
-- Nora Roberts