“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.”

Salma Hayek (1966) Mexican-American actress and producer

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

Rachel Kushner book The Flamethrowers

“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Shower the people you love with love.
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will (do as I say, yeah).
Shower the people you love with love.
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are gonna be much better if you only will.”

James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity