"Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world"(Rev Ed Hird)

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence"(Goncourt)

"Love demands all, and has a right to all"(Beethoven)

"I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion."

"True love is not measured in hugs and kisses, but in struggles and fears, and those who can work though those...they possess true love"(Adam Murphy)

"A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams"(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death"(Thomas Mann)

"Love is Love; if it feels like love, then no doubt it is love. Simple."(Luke O'Donnell)

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love"(Leo Tolstoy)

"There will be a moment when you're eyes meet and everything in the world is simple again."(Michael Edwards)

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."(Lynda Barry)

"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other."(Lucian de Croszonza)

"If you have it, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."(Sir James M. Barrie)

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."(Kahlil Gibran)

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person"(W. Somerset Maugham)

"Hell is the suffering of being unable to love"(Dostoyevsky)

"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing"(Pascal)

"Love's very pain is sweet"(Percy Bysshe Shelley)

"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."(Mother Teresa)

"They do not love that do not show their love."(William Shakespeare)

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other"(C. G. Jung)

"This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love"(Gerald Massey)

"Love, like a river, will cut a new path Whenever it meets an obstacle."(Crystal Middlemas)

"It's not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."(Mother Teresa)

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go"(Herman Hesse)