Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
I Corinthians 13:4-8

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
~Matthew 6:21

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
~John 3:18

"Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!"
"Love is a journey not a destination."
"Love is not a feeling it's a sensation."
--A state of being/action that is without words or explanation.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

The love we give away is the only love we keep. ~Elbert Hubbard

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~Elie Wiesel

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. ~Ernest Becker

He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~Euripides

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. ~Goethe

'Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.' Oliver Wendell Holmes

'Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing' Benjamin Franklin

'Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that
flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter' James Fenimore Cooper

'Friends are born, not made. . .Intimates are pre-destined.' Henry Brooks Adams

'Do NOT save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them now instead' - Anna Cummins

'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are
thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth' - Robert Southey

'Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of
indifference.' Sir Walter Scott

'Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages' - Aristotle

'We are advertis'd by our loving friends' William Shakespear

'Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions' Samuel Johnson

'There is in friendship something of all relations, and something above them all. It is
the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.' John Evelyn