Simone de Beauvoir

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them-we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

There’s nothing more romantic than getting down in the dirt and plowing through the weeds, brambles, thickets, and dry land of life with someone just as willing by your side.

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

I knew from that first moment we met. It was not love at first sight exactly, but – familiarity. Like oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache!

Sorry that I can’t believe that anybody ever really starts to fall in love with me.

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

I’ve forever wanted a woman who loves like a soldier and fights like a poet. Always with unfailing faithfulness, always for the yearning in her heart.

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

I want to be loved while I’m here, and the only way to get love is to give love.

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.