“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” — Rumi
 “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” — Lao Tzu
 “You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
 “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
 “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
 “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” — Marcus Aurelius
 “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse
 “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
 “Love is a friendship set to music.”
 —  Joseph Campbell
 “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” — Blaise Pascal
 “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
 — Seneca
 “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
 “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
 “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” —  Lucille Ball
 “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
 “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
 “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” — Lord Byron