“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”

John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest

“The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.”

Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?”

Alexander McCall Smith book Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

“When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.”

Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest

“You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.”

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) American television personality

“I think we deserve people who really, really love us.”

Alicia Keys (1981) American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”

William Boyd (1952) British writer