• "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." - Ann Landers Tweet
• "This love is silent." - T. S. Eliot Tweet
• "Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory." - Milan Kundera Tweet
• "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic." - Anais Nin Tweet
• "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave." - Mahatma Gandhi Tweet
• "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Tweet
• "I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." - Oliver Goldsmith Tweet
• "We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving." - Cyril Connolly Tweet
• "Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." - Barbara de Angelis Tweet
• "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame." - Barbara Ehrenreich Tweet