* My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I'd do anything for you And my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.
Sarah McLachlan

* May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
L.O. Baird

* Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

* Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
J. Isham

* Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare

* Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

* Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

* The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo

* Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm

* There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand

* Love is an act of endless forgiveness A tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

* The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

* The courses of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare