quotable quotes of Love

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa

(my favorite quote of Love)

The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich