Love that is true lasts forever. - Unknown
To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart - Unknown
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm 1900-1980
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961, 34.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh, Ardele, 1948, (2, translated by Lucienne Hill)
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line - Lucille Ball