Well, colour us confused. Who knew Ice T was a big ol’ softie under that icy (heh) exterior!

“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

- Ice T

Doesn’t it seem as though the divine Marlene Dietrich uttered this love quotation especially for us? Seriously, we’ve been posting love quotations for almost a year and this describes perfectly how we feel about love quotations!

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

- Marlene Dietrich

This love quote is really romantic. Even if it’s from a bear of very little brain, who is bothered by long words.

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

- Winne the Pooh

We’re going to go out on a limb and declare that springtime has finally arrived. Are you feeling springtime-y yet? Then let’s follow Milton’s advice and rejoice!

“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”

- John Milton

Who ever said cohabiting was easy? But, in love as in life, people find a way to make living together work, even if that means accepting that you can’t always understand each other.

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”

- Eric Hoffer

“Friendship is liken earthenware, once broken it can be mended. Love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.”

- Josh Billings

In keeping with the animal love theme, here’s a love quote about love from animal to man. They don’t call them man’s best friend for nothing!

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”

- Josh Billings

Love and Friendship can be shown in many ways. Novelist Maeve Binchy reminds us that one way of showing love and friendship is by doing things for people, rather than spending money on them.

“I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things (…) Never mind the money, the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.”

— Maeve Binchy in O Magazine

Here’s another love quote that applies not only to romantic love, but also to the love one feels for family and friends.

“Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.”

- Milton Mayeroff

“Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one’s integrity, one’s individuality. Love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and sepateness, yet permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

- Erich Fromm, from “The Art of Loving”