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- Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
- Michael Masser and Linda Creed
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
- Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
- Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
- It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
- 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 (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
- When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
- To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
- Karen Sunde
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