To love deeply

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist & short story author (1860 - 1904)

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
British novelist (1919 - 1999)

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
French dramatist (1910 - 1987)

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
English actor & author (1921 - 2004)

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)