Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Real Live Preacher

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
W. Somerset Maugham

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
Anon.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
Anon.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin