8. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike
9. “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” — Bertrand Russell
10. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” — Andre Gide
11. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” — Oscar Wilde
12. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
13. “Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” — John Lennon
14. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran
15. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
16. “We love the things we love for what they are.” — Robert Frost
17. “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” — Kristen Neff
18. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
19. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
20. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A. A. Milne
21. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” — James Thurber
22. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
23. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” — Elbert Hubbard
24. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles Schulz
25. “First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.” — Katy Perry
26. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan
27. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” — Erich Segal
28. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey
29. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
30. “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
31. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” — Jane Austen
32. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
33. “As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.” — Ralphie May
34. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
35. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anaïs Nin