Thoughts on Love for Valentine's Day

Birth of Venus - Redon

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Khalil Gibran

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is my religion.

John Keats

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden