
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.Thich Nhat Hanh
Anyone can fall in love; staying in love, and watching it deepen, is the rarer art these quotes honour. Amy Bloom on two people still looking at each other after a lifetime becoming a miracle, Robert Browning on growing old together with the best yet to be. For couples marking years — your own, or your parents' golden one.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.Thich Nhat Hanh

Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.Thich Nhat Hanh

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.Rabindranath Tagore

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.Maya Angelou

Where there is love there is life.Mahatma Gandhi

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.Helen Keller

To love another person is to see the face of God.Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo

To love or have loved, that is enough.Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.Victor Hugo
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.Anais Nin

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.Derek Walcott
Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.Amy Bloom

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.Robert Browning
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.Mary Parrish