If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. - C.S. Lewis. View more images...
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. - Proverb. View more images...
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. - Adam Smith. View more images...
Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe. - Novalis. View more images...
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box. - Mason Cooley. View more images...
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. - Mary Stuart. View more images...
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies? - Erich Fromm. View more images...
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. - Robert Burton. View more images...
Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god. - Denis de Rougemont. View more images...
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. - Ellen Goodman. View more images...
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. - Gary Zukav. View more images...
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. - Norman Vincent Peale. View more images...
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama . View more images...
Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love. - William Ellery Channing. View more images...