Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate needs. Yet, when we think about it, our common sense tells us that our most inspired, creative acts are deeply tied to our need to love and that, when we lack love, we find it difficult to work creatively; that work without love is dead, mechanical, sheer competence without vitality, that love without work grows boring, monotonous, lacks depth and passion. -Marta Zahaykevich

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? -Emma Goldman

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. -Thomas Edward Bodett

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. -George Jean Nathan

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. -Emanuel Swedenborg

The first duty of love - is to listen. -Paul Johannes Tillich

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope. -Maya Angelou

Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine? -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is a haunting melody That I have never mastered And I fear I never will. -William S. Burroughs

So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Faults are thick where love is thin. -English Proverb