persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations.
Khalil Gibran
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it,
but few have seen it.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninger
My favourite:
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking
outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing;
a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.”
Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”
Erich Fromm
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;
love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
There is only one kind of love,
but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup,
whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Men always want to be a woman’s first love,
women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
