“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” – Fred Rogers

“You’ll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you’d go.” – Tony Kushner

“Life must be rich and full of loving — it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. – Jack Kerouac

“Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

“People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.” – John Steinbeck

“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. – Paulo Coelho

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” – C.S. Lewis