"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
Jean Anouilh
"To wait an Hour-is long-
If Love be just beyond-
To wait Eternity-is short-
If Love reward the end-"
Emily Dickinson, To wait an Hour-is long
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
Paul, 1 Corinthians
"The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism."
Moliere, Le Misanthrope
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Franklin P. Jones
"To love is to take delight in the happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness one's own."
Gottfried Leibnitz
"Love reckons hours for months, and das for years;
And every little absence is an age."
John Dryden, Amphitryon
"I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her."
Victor Hugo, Saint Denis
"We are most alive when we're in love."
John Updike
"I love your hills, and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating-
But O, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating!"
John Keats, Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
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