"We talked a lot of small talk, but it was small talk with heart in it."

-- Stuart Brent

"If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things."

-- Dostoyevsky

"We make our lives by what we love."

-- John Cage

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to happiness."

-- Bertrand Russell

"Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited."

-- Duke Ellington

"The best way to know God is to love many things."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

"A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it."

-- Goethe

"Love is the every only God."

-- e.e. cummings

"Sometimes it's a form of love to talk with someone you have nothing in common with and be fascinated by their presence."

-- David Byrne

"I tell you the more I think, the more I feel there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

-- Vincent Van Gogh (to his brother Theo)

"Love is the potent force that tears off all masks, and men who run away from love do so in order that they may preserve their masks."

-- Gurdjieff

"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pores out in love."

-- Meister Eckhart

"The darkness needs to be seen, not as a threat, but as an opportunity to love."

-- Emmanuel

"God loves all men but is enchanted by none."

-- Isaac Asimov

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

-- Tom Robbins

"If someone were in such ecstasy as came to St. Paul, and knew of a sick man who needed a bowl of soup from him, I would judge it far better that for love he should forget his ecstasy and rather serve the needy one."

-- Meister Eckhart

"The love of God is the essence of all spiritual discipline."

-- Ramakrishna

"Men are not free because they do not know what they love to do."

-- Krishnamurti

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

-- Rumi

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

-- Henry Ward Beecher