Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
- William Shakespeare

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
- Mother Teresa

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.
- Rollo May

The art of love . . . is largely the art of persistence.
- Albert Ellis

The best proof of love is trust.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers