There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

For those who love… time is eternity.

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.

Don’t be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

We can only learn to love by loving.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul… I don’t really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it’s also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock ‘n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there’s always a new generation with new music.

Personally, I can’t see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

You’re my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Truthfully, I almost avoided ‘While You Were Sleeping,’ because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they’re full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.