Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment. – William Shakespeare
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. – Wayne Dyer
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – Helen Keller
The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare
I know of only one duty, and that is to love. – Albert Camus
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. – Oscar Wilde
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. – Mother Teresa
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh
The first duty of love is to listen. – Paul Tillich
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. – Oscar Wilde
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Khalil Gibran
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. – Mark Twain
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou
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
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher