Quotes on love. Teach only love for that is what you are. Anonymous Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman (1948-, American poet, writer, naturalist) There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it, he must perish. Alfred Adler (1870-1937, Austrian psychiatrist) What is love? Love is when you care more about someone else than you care about yourself. George Akers Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. Louisa May Alcott I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God. Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American author) She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American author) Love is nothing more than the attempt to overcome the barrier of time, piercing the screen of space. But this is only appearance, in reality it is the restless matter that transforms itself. Carl William Brown (Educator and aphorist) The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy – yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. Nelson Algren (1909-1981, American author) I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. Woody Allen (1935-, American director, screenwriter, actor, comedian) Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Woody Allen (1935-, American director, screenwriter, actor, comedian) A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, “The Devil’s Dictionary”) In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past — a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic) Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)