"The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist." Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604), early pope of the Roman church

"Genuine love sees faces, not a mass: the good shepherd 'calleth his own sheep by name.'" George A. Buttrick, 20th century Christian pastor and educator

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu, 6th century B.C. philosopher, founder of Taoism and author of the Tao Te Ching

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" Erich Fromm, 20th century German social psychologist, sociologist, humanistic philosopher

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” Steve Maraboli, bestselling Author, and Behavioral Science Academic

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King, Jr., 20th century civil rights activist

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." Henry Van Dyke, 19th century American clergy, author, poet, hymnist, and statesman

"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy." D.L. Moody, American evangelist who founded the Northfield Schools in Massachusetts, Moody Church and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, early 20th century French philosopher and Jesuit priest

"Love is a better teacher than duty." Albert Einstein, considered the most influential scientist/physicist of the 20th century

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." Carl Sagan, 20th century American cosmologist

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson, considered by many the leading poet of the Victorian Age

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, late 17th/early 18th century German writer, artist, and politician

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." Henry David Thoreau, 19th century American writer, poet, and philosopher

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love." St. Francis of Assisi, 13th century Italian friar and preacher, known as the patron saint of animals

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." Antoine de Saint-Exupery, early 20th century French novelist and essayist