Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love is energy of life.

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Love is a great beautifier.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Romantic love is an addiction.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Ultimately love is everything.