"It's compassion that makes gods of us."
Dorothy Gilman

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

"Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull."
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Caligula

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
Leo Tolstoy

"Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Author Unknown

"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
Woody Allen

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

"That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean that. It's not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it's not all like that. A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad. That makes it all bad.... Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another. But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help. When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."
From the movie Old Yeller

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
Rabbi Julins Gordon

Picture by: Chris Rittswood

"Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun."
Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye

"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter."
Norah Jones, O Magazine, July 2003

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
Ice T, The Ice Opinion

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)