In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. - Marcel Proust. View more images...

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa. View more images...

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach. View more images...

Open your heart and take us in,
Love—love and me. - William Ernest Henley. View more images...

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins. View more images...

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. - Alfred Lord Tennyson. View more images...

What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes—outliv'd my liking. - Colley Cibber. View more images...

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. -Anna Louise Strong. - Anna Louise Strong. View more images...

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends - Unknown. View more images...

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. - Robert Brault. View more images...

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. View more images...

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime. - Swedish Proverb. View more images...

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. - Lydia M. Child. View more images...

Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me? - Oscar Hammerstein, II. View more images...