RON HENGGELER

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.

Paulo Coelho

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Khalil Gibran

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Banana Yoshimoto

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

The skull of St. Valentine

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittler

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

e.e. cummings

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Saint Augustine

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickenson

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Laozi

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Loretta Young

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Menchen

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Albert Einstein

Love loves to love love.

James Joyce

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Zig Ziglar