Wise words and quotable quotes on the meaning of love.

Our society often confuses love and lust. Unlike lust, love is directed outward toward others, not inward toward ourselves. It is utterly unselfish. This kind of love goes against our natural inclinations. It is impossible to have this love unless God helps us set aside our own natural desires so that we can love and not expect anything in return. Thus, the more we become like Christ, the more love we will show to others.
from the New Living Translation Bible

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no remedy for love than to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

When there is room in the heart, there is room in the house.
Danish proverb

Now everything is you
Everything that touches our lives
Touches us together
Like a violin bow
That begets from two strings, but one voice.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicholson

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which independence is equal, the dependence is mutual, and the obligation is reciprocal.
Lois Kaufman Anspacher

It is better to marry than to burn.
Corinthians

Who so findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
Proverbs, 18:22

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding, 'Amelia'

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, 'Rasselas'