"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" Erich Fromm
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." Oscar Wilde
"Where there is love, there is life." Mahatma Gandhi
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle
"The first duty of love is to listen" Paul Tillich
"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." Bruce Lee
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Elliot
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein
"The course of true love never did run smooth." William Shakespeare
"What force is more potent than love?" Igor Stravinsky
"Don't forget to love yourself." Soren Kierkegaard
"The basis of reasoning, after faith in God, is loving kindness toward the people." Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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Who do you love?
Espiritual"Love is an activity, not a passive effect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for". In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving."[1]