"If a man is not willing to do anything for the woman he loves, he does not deserve to keep her."
-Obed Matus

"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
-Jacques Jacques Maritain

"No sooner met but they looked;
no sooner looked but they loved;
no sooner loved but they sighed;
no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;
no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy."
-William Shakespeare

"This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life."
-Thomas Mann

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, only more love."
-Mother Teresa

"LOVE IS... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!"
-Jose Marti Y Perez 

"I'll tell you what real love is.  It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter- as I did!"
-Charles Dickens

"Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary, who loves me back."
-Shelley Winters

"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults."
-Elizabeth Cameron

"Love does not change its mind, only infatuation does that."
-"White Knight"

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch."
-source unknown

”Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
-Elizabeth Stone

“A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.”
-Latin proverb

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
-George Gordon Lord Byron

“Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”
-Japanese Proverb

“To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the Sky
Better learn how to kneel.”
-U2, "Mysterious Ways"

“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway-- I can love for both of us.”
-Stendhal

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.”
-Arnold H. Glasow

”Many a friendship -- long, loyal, and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.”
-Frederick W. Faber

”The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
-Theodore Hesburgh