“Talk with your mate, your children and other loved ones about what you want for them when you are gone. By doing this, you give them liberty to live a full life and eventually find meaning again.”— Jason B. Rosenthal, nytimes.com
“And Love, no matter how abused and maltreated, is a very patient god, and even while suffering from undeserved wounds, still works on, doing magical things.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Love that keeps all the choir of lives in chime — Love that is blood within the veins of time.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Still Love remained — a Love, chastened and sad, with drooping wings and somewhat doubting smile — yet it was Love . . .”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Is Love alone worth living for — worth dying for? Is it the only satisfying good we can grasp at among the shifting shadows of our brief existence? In its various phases and different workings, is it, after all, the brightest radiance known in the struggling darkness of our lives?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“If You Can't Love Yourself How In The Hell Are You Gonna Love Somebody Else?”— RuPaul, wmagazine.com
“The mind constricts; love unbinds. The mind says, ‘Don’t let go or overflow.’ Love says, ‘Be free without formality.’”— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org
“Love doesn’t require that you choose what inhumanity you care about. Love is beyond religion, race & region. Love doesn’t label you because you want peace & safety for Palestinian children & Israeli children. Love that does not weep regarding slaughtered Palestinians is not Love.”— Bernice King, twitter.com
“Love! Love is strong as death — jealousy is cruel as the grave — the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“The tenderest relations are often the most delicate and subtle, and 'trifles light as air' may scatter and utterly destroy the sensitive gossamer threads extending between one heart and another, as easily as a child's passing foot destroys the spider's web woven on the dewy grass in the early mornin…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I do not think wealth is needful to make one happy. But love — ah! I could not live without it . . .”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Matchless beauty! . . . Will you not pardon my crime, if crime it be — the crime of loving you? For I do love you! Heaven only knows how utterly and desperately.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“When you hold a flower in your hand for a long time, 'till all its fragrance has gone, and you drop it because it no longer smells sweetly — you are not to blame — it is natural you should wish to have something fresh and fragrant, it is the flower's fault because it could not keep its scent long en…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“How often must I tell you! I do think you will never tire of hearing! You know that it is you for whom I care most, and that all the world would be empty to me without you! Oh . . . my darling! Do not make me try to tell you how much I love you! I cannot — my heart is too full!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com