"The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.  Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never.   Life can be great- quite god-like.  It can be so.  God be thanked I have proved it."
-D.H. Lawrence

"To achieve the ultimate love takes the ultimate sacrifice.  I'd rather love without life, than live without love."
-"Les Vierges"

"Every day I live, I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."
-Mary Cholmondeley

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-Barbara DeAngelis

"You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved."
-Author Unknown

"Beware of her fair locks, for when she winds them round a young man's neck, she will not set him free again." 
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Love is like being naked in the daylight instead of just having your clothes off in the dark."
-Ashley Wood

“Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.”
-anonymous

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
-Thomas Mann

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Every love has its own force; and it cannot lie idle in the soul of the lover. Love must draw the soul on. Do you, then, wish to know the character of a love? See where it leads.”
-Saint Augustine of Hippo