Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up.
– James Altucher

Love Is Growing Up

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
– Ingrid Bergman

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
– Iris Murdoch

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where you are.
– J. D. Salinger

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
–  J.K. Rowling

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
–  J.K. Rowling

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
–  J.K. Rowling

A lover never becomes a loser.
– Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.
– Jaachynma N.E. Agu

One passion can only be cured by another—a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person’s calling.
– Jacques Philippe

The only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. Haters don’t fit anywhere into that. Don’t devote any mental space to them.
– James Altucher

Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you’re still never going to know for sure everything he’s thinking?
– James Patterson

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?.
– James Patterson