Love is a universal feeling among men and women. That being said, we each experience it in different ways. This is true for everyone as these quotes from well-known individuals reveals.

Given the universality of love, it is hardly surprising that there have been many people who have discussed the issue over time. The amazing things is that no matter their backgrounds or nationalities, they all seem to say the same thing in one form or antother.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Aristotle - Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Helen Keller - The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Rose Franken - Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Jonathan Carroll - You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

Ayn Rand - If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Oscar Wilde - Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

James Baldwin - Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

G. Moore - Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.

Washington Irving - Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Douglas Yates - People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Anonymous - Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Kyle Schmidt - I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Alfred Lord Tennyson - Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Bill Wilson - To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Buddha - You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

G. K. Chesterton - The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

We live and we love. It doesn’t matter if we are famous or non-descript. It doesn’t matter if we are rich or poor. In the end, love makes us richer than any coins ever could.