1.
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
B. F. Skinner
What is love but another term for rewarding kindness? Or vice versa.
2.
True love is eternal,
infinite,
and always like itself.
It is equal and pure.
Honore de Balzac
4.
What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.
Eckhart Tolle
5.
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Anais Nin
6.
If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will.
Rumi
7.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.
C. S. Lewis
8.
I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.
Megan McCafferty
9.
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?
Edgar Lee Masters
10.
What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.
William Wharton
11.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
Elizabeth Gilbert
12.
What is love but a second-hand emotion?
Tina Turner
14.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
Oscar Wilde
15.
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
16.
What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you.
Aleatha Romig
17.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
William Penn
18.
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
What a task
to ask
of anything, or anyone,
yet it is ours,
and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
Mary Oliver
20.
What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
P. G. Wodehouse
21.
You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?
Laurell K. Hamilton
22.
What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.
Rebecca Goldstein
24.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
Madame de Stael
25.
Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.
Rick Yancey
26.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
Peter De Vries
27.
If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.
Sonia Braga
28.
What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.
Laurell K. Hamilton