The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. - Truman Capote (more). View more images...
Love is not consolation, it is light. - Simone Weil. View more images...
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. - Giuseppe Mazzini. View more images...
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer. - John Denver. View more images...
For all true love is grounded on esteem. - George Villiers. View more images...
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go - Unknown. View more images...
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. - Simone Signoret. View more images...
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - Dalai Lama. View more images...
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. - Thomas Merton. View more images...
Every love's the love before in a duller dress - Dorothy Parker. View more images...
Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain. - Sharon Salzberg. View more images...
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? - Anonymous. View more images...
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Rene Descartes. View more images...
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? - James A. Baldwin. View more images...
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself. - Unknown. View more images...