“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” — Rumi

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” — Pablo Neruda

“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” — William Shakespeare

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wordsworth

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting.” — T.S. Eliot

“Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.” — John Keats

“If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” — John Steinbeck

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” — William Faulkner

“In love there are two things—bodies and words.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” — Roald Dahl

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.” — Nora Ephron

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” — Alice Walker

“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.” — Stephen King

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” — J.D. Salinger

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks

“We love the things we love for what they are.” — Robert Frost

“Love loves to love love.” — James Joyce

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.” — Henry Miller

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” — E.E. Cummings

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” — Charles Dickens

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” — Madame De Stael

“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it.” — Ray Bradbury