When it comes down to it, we all just want to be loved. --Jamie Yellin

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration, of another’s personhood. --Karen Casey

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
And I scald alone, here, under the fire
of the great moon. --Amy Lowell, from "The Letter"

Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us that when one weeps, the other will taste salt. --Anon

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid when they are told they are loved. --Anon

To love another person is to see the face of God. --Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. --James Baldwin

two hearts
two minds
in time
did find
one love
one aim
two paths
the same
rejoice!
hold fast!
.. and love
will last --Anon (I think the author might be Gwendolyn Brooks, because some of her poems were in the same format.)

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it... --Song of Solomon, The Holy Bible