There's something profound about a quotation. Perhaps it's just that the author can say so much in so few words, or maybe it's because it touches our heart and echoes the words we long to say. I've always loved quotations and have collected them for years. We may stress in our day to day life about our personal finance, our jobs, the financial management of the nation, but love is what soothes and calms the spirit, and what life is really all about. I share my collection of quotes with you---arranged by subject (see index to left). May they speak to your heart and inspire you to 'let your love show.'

Quotations: Love is...

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
--Alexander Smith

Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those who love.
--Author Unknown

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
--1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is merely madness...
--William Shakespeare

True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, few have seen it.
--La Rochefoucauld

Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted, but always willing to find a way.
--Author Unknown

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
--Herman Hesse

Love is energy of life.
--Robert Browning

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
--Pablo Picasso

Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses.
--Thomas Dewar

Love is like a flower: Once you pick it, it slowly dies
--Author Unknown

Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be and spontaneously express, his real self; to produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone.
--Author Unknown

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
--Felix Adler

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
--Honore de Balzac

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

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us.
--Thomas Trahern

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
--Leo Buscaglia

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
--Author Unknown

Love is the great miracle cure.  Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
--Louise Hay

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
--Mark A. Overby

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.
--Gloria Gaither

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

Life is the flower of which love is the honey.
--Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Love is friendship set to music
--Pollock

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away.
--Dorothy Parker 

Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.
--Author Unknown

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.
--Bob Phillips

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
--Sinclair Lewis

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
--Cathy Carlyle

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
--Thomas Carlyle

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
--Ben Hecht

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
--Fulton J. Sheen

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
--Germaine De Stael

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--H.L.Mencken

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
--Emily Dickinson

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame. It's useless to chase it if it won't play the game
--From the opera Carmen

Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.
--John Gay

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
--Sir Walter Raleigh

Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell?
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
It is perhaps the sauncing bell
That tolls all into heaven or hell:
And this is Love, as I hear tell.
--Sir Walter Raleigh