The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
Kaleel Jamison
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love just doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Kay Knudsen
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Mignon McLaughlin