Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.

From the “Wizard Of Oz”

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula LeGuin

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Amy Bloom

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.

Emily Dickinson

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.
Henri Nouwen

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

Bertrand Russel